Cameroonian troops accused of rights abuses
The separatists accuse the largely Francophone administration of President Paul Biya of marginalising and discriminating against Cameroon's English-speaking minority.
Boakyewaa Lawrencia 
Human Rights Watch, a human rights organization, has charged the Cameroonian military in the North-West region with "killings," "arbitrary detentions," and "looting" of villages and medical facilities.
According to a study by HRW, during armed operations against separatists in the Anglophone region between 24 April and 12 June, government soldiers killed at least 10 individuals in the cold blood and committed other violations.
Additionally, the military is said to have set 12 homes on fire, wrecked and looted medical facilities, imprisoned at least 26 people without cause, and may have forcibly vanished up to 17 more.
To create a separate "Ambazonian" state, the Cameroonian military has been fighting several separatist factions waging a guerrilla war in the primarily Anglophone North-West and South-West areas since 2016.
The separatists accuse the largely Francophone administration of President Paul Biya of marginalizing and discriminating against Cameroon's English-speaking minority.
