{"id":225092,"date":"2026-02-25T13:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-massacre-trial-short-on-justice\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:12:21","slug":"cameroon-massacre-trial-short-on-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-massacre-trial-short-on-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Massacre Trial Short On Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>UN Should Support Victims&#8217; Appeal, Reparations<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The lenient prison terms for defendants on trial for the February 2020 massacre in Ngarbuh, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/cameroon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon<\/a>&#8216;s North-West region, compounds the authorities&#8217; insufficient efforts to hold senior military officers accountable and compensate victims&#8217; families, Human Rights Watch said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">On February 20, 2026, a military court in Cameroon&#8217;s capital, Yaound\u00e9, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/fr\/afrique\/20260220-cameroun-cinq-%C3%A0-dix-ans-de-prison-ferme-pour-les-militaires-condamn%C3%A9s-pour-le-massacre-de-ngarbuh-de-2020?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=x&amp;utm_source=shorty&amp;utm_slink=rfi.my%2FCSbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced<\/a> three security force members and a pro-government militia member who was tried&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602240053.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>Nairobi \u2014 UN Should Support Victims&#8217; Appeal, Reparations The lenient prison terms for defendants on trial for the February 2020 massacre in Ngarbuh, in Cameroon&#8216;s North-West region, compounds the authorities&#8217; insufficient efforts to hold senior military officers accountable and compensate victims&#8217; families, Human Rights Watch said today. On February 20, 2026, a military court in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00600571:b561b031f408d54f38484fa2a03961de:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,6852,2075,257,5196,254,6564],"class_list":["post-225092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-justice","tag-massacre","tag-news","tag-short","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00600571:b561b031f408d54f38484fa2a03961de:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225092","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=225092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}