Two Cameroonian Gendarmes Killed In Overnight Raid In Bamenda





At least two members of Cameroon's security forces have been killed in Bamenda, capital of the Northwest region of the country.

The death of the gendarmes - paramilitary troops - were recorded in an overnight raid on a security checkpoint in Bamenda.

The attack remains unknown even though the Northwest and Southwest regions of the Central African nation have been under high security over what has become known as the 'Anglophone crisis.

Cameroon's linguistic divide harks back a century to the League of Nations' decision to split the former German colony of Kamerun between the allied French and British victors at the end of World War One.

Meanwhile," the secessionist movement has existed for decades underground but has only recently started to gain widespread support in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest in response to the government's repression of protests.

Hundreds of Anglophone Cameroonians were swept up in mass arrests following violent demonstrations on Oct. 1, and 4,500 have fled the crisis for eighboring Nigeria.
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