She looks shaken on her hospital bed, after she was taken away and gang-raped by French Cameroun Bukubeti militias on a scorched-earth policy in Bafut, North West British Cameroon. The mother in her sixties said she bled profusely after the rape on 3 April, 2020. She says she lost a sizable amount of blood and was only taken to the poorly-equipped hospital in the area the next day. The main hospital – Manji, was destroyed by the soldiers who also beheaded a civilian. Despite calls by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for a global ceasefire to enable an inclusive fight against the Covid-19 virus, French Cameroun colonial forces have rather used the occasion to intensify the killing and destruction in the British Cameroons, while the world’s attention is trailed on the virus. More than 20,000 people have been killed since 2016, when the uprising began. For more on the genocide, click here. Below is the victim in her own words.
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