TORTURE IN THE NAME OF PAUL BIYA; A MUSICIAN(Longue Longue’s) TORTURE IN THE HANDS OF FRENCHCAMEROUN’S TERROR SOLDIERS

The video is just about four minutes, but Epitomizes the anguish anyone goes thru in the Kameruns for criticizing Africa’s oldest and most Brutal Dictator – Paul Biya. The musician – Longue Longue often called the “Liberator” and seen as an advocate for certain ills in Africa and Cameroun, threaded into the lion’s den by critiquing the 92-year-old’s poor governance of the country. Despite being a liberator in his lyrics, he believes only God liberated him from being lynched by the French Cameroun soldiers. In addition to confiscating his passport, Longue Longue was treated with a dose of daily torture that Anglophones have been subjected to since 1961.

In the torture video, the artist is in pain pleading with his torturers. His reminder to the savages that he is the author of a song praising the first Lady of French Cameroun, Chantal Biya, couldn’t deter the officers. Locked behind a table chair, the wailing artist is tortured with a cutlass on the soles of his feet. The sanguinary soldiers could be heard forcing him to reveal to them other accomplices to the video. A reminder of the French Criminal Law system where one is guilty until he/she can prove otherwise; system that Anglophones dreaded and called fir its withdrawal from the English-speaking section of Cameroon that is accustomed to the Common Law system, of innocent until proven guilty.

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