{"id":191401,"date":"2025-02-14T17:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-massacre-victims-wait-justice-five-years-on\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:06:01","slug":"cameroons-massacre-victims-wait-justice-five-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroons-massacre-victims-wait-justice-five-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon&#8217;s Massacre Victims Wait Justice Five Years On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><em>Stalled Trial a Case Study in Impunity<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Brutal violence has taken hold in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/cameroon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon<\/a>&#8216;s North-West and South-West regions since 2016 as armed separatist groups seek independence for the country&#8217;s minority Anglophone regions. Attacks on communities and acts of banditry have become the norm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Government security forces were deployed to stop attacks and bring stability, but the conflict has only deepened. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2022\/08\/11\/cameroon-army-killings-disappearances-north-west-region\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Security forces<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2023\/10\/13\/cameroon-video-shows-killing-armed-separatists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">separatist groups<\/a> have both been responsible for serious abuses against&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502140314.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stalled Trial a Case Study in Impunity Brutal violence has taken hold in Cameroon&#8216;s North-West and South-West regions since 2016 as armed separatist groups seek independence for the country&#8217;s minority Anglophone regions. Attacks on communities and acts of banditry have become the norm. Government security forces were deployed to stop attacks and bring stability, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,377,4331,6852,2075,257,254,8402,9369,5114],"class_list":["post-191401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-justice","tag-massacre","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victims","tag-wait","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}