UK Government to act on human rights abuses in cameroon

The latest UK-Parliamentary Human Rights Group report on Cameroon found out that too many people are afraid to report crimes and corruption to authorities.


 Sadly this is the reality in Cameroon and less is done by those who are in total control of the power. As this report details, members of the parliamentary human rights group met with many people who described in their own words enforced disappearances, unlawful arrests and detention, organised beatings in police and military police cells and jails, house-burnings in the night and torture by specialised armed forces.

 An extreme culture of impunity has been installed in Cameroon ,especially for military police and armed forces. This is mean that most  people are too afraid to report crimes and even those with courage reported do not generally result in thorough investigation and prosecution.

Lord Frank Judd, one of the writer of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group finding mission report , and president of Africa Inequality and Millennium Development Goals campaign


There have been in recent months a small change of tactic after the international community complaint to the United Nations meeting about human rights abuses committed in Cameroon by military police and armed forces. Few of them have been sent in prison and other are still walking free on the streets.

 There is no real Parliamentary scrutiny or transparency over what President Biya  and his Government are doing, not helped by the fact that 75%  of the National Assembly is on the hands of the ruling party, the Cameroon people democratic movement ( CPDM) where all members belong to the same party (CPDM). Cameroonian`s own Human Rights Ombudsman is hostile to the concept of independent NGOs holding the Government to account.

One Ntarikon`s villager told us: "Biya  laws do not protect me"." You cannot take a police officer who verbally abuse you and even torture you to court and face a simple trial, just because they think that they are above the law and they can do to you whatever they want to..This is what it is happening in the North-West of Cameroon even there is a little change of that behaviour..But for how long?". .

Turning a blind eye to human rights abuses under the misplaced assumption that Cameroon  is stable under Paul Biya and his armed forces general council 's iron regime only stores up problems for the future.