By NOELA EBOB BISONG
Reports say some three women in Lassin, Bui Division of the North West region have been put to death by armed men said to be separatist fighters, following accusations of witchcraft levied on them.
The SUN gathered that the incident occurred last week, with the video of the incident aired and shared across various social media platforms.
The SUN gathered that the armed fighters initially accused five women of witchcraft, after one of theirs is said to have died mysteriously. Reports say the armed men took the accused through some rituals wherein three of the five were killed.
The shocking video comes barely days after another which took many aback, where a woman was shot and buried after accused of being a spy to the military. Despite calls from several rights groups to shun inhuman acts in the line of the Anglophone crisis, atrocities after atrocities have continued to characterise the ongoing events in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions, following a crisis which broke out in October 2016.
Disturbed by the crimes committed by their fighters, Tapang Ivo, one of the separatist leaders in the diaspora, has released a video through his Facebook account, calling on the fighters to desist from attacking civilians, as it acts as deterrence to them attaining their independence. Tapang regretted that since 2018, a demon had entered their struggle for independence called politics.
“I don’t know whatever demon came into 2018. Believe me our biggest weakness has been the demon that came into 2018.Politics first! When we started politicising the struggle, that was the demon…You should not chop off people’s fingers and the hands and the rest. That is what whites don’t and will never side with you”, Tapang cautions.