HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION OF THE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST REGIONS OCTOBER 2021 THROUGH MARCH 2022

The months from October 2021 through March 2022 witnessed intensification of the violence and destruction occurring in the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon, at both the hands of the Defence and Security Forces and armed separatist fighters. The Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA) has recorded numerous human rights violations committed during this period, including extrajudicial killings, torture, rape, arson, the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), kidnapping, arbitrary arrests, and other forms of violence which seriously and disproportionately affect women and children. Attacks and threats have also targeted schools, teachers, children, hospitals, lawyers, aid workers, and human rights defenders. This report contains a summary of human rights violations committed by both the Cameroon Defence and Security Forces and armed separatist groups in the two English-speaking regions between October 2021 and March 2022. First, it tallies and analyses the violations tracked by CHRDA by location, perpetrator, and incident type. Second, it provides a series of maps showing the incidents by region, division, type, and perpetrator. Finally, it includes a full chart of the incidents, sorted by violation type.

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