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

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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.

Cameroun Military’s Forceful Use of Civilian Escorts and then Executing them: The Case of Neba Vitalis’ Killing

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The inhumane tactics by the French Cameroun military in English Cameroon since the Civil war began in 2016 are varied – from placing guns on innocent civilians killed, dragging victims behind their trucks, beheadings, innocent civilians as human shields etc. The latest tactics is dressing up innocent civilians with military uniforms and forcing them as escort shields in their operations and then executing them. Neba Vitalis, was still recovering from torture from ADF Captivity in a village called Njimbi, near Bambui, where he was branded as a blacking. He was tortured for days, his family was demanded a ransom of ($1000)500,000cfa or his head will be placed on a pole. After borrowing about $400(200,000cfa), by his brother(equally tortured) with a pledge to complete the rest, Vitalis, regained his freedom in a frail state; coughing blood with sores all over his body from the torture he received from Ayaba Cho’s ADF under a certain Gen. Biabia(pics below). His freedom was without any identification documents like the usual government issued ID card, compulsory in the war-torn Bamenda.His tormentors had confiscated his ID card pending the completion of his ransom price. Those who saw him after his release knew he won’t survive. “I was coughing and at times urinating blood.” Vitalis tells a friend. Sympathizers who were just helping him seek medical help believed Vitalis will not die from his injuries. They were relieved that he finally was recuperating. (Below are some pictures of his lacerated body, swollen face and a text message to a friend about his ordeal at the hands of the kidnappers).

Down Comes the FrenchCameroun Military:

while conversing with a friend at Ngongham on the evening of 24 September 2024, the military accosted Vita and his friend. ” he stripped himself down to show the marks of torture from the kidnappers, and explained to them that they seized his ID card. He thought they will reason with him.” The friend tells investigators. Vitalis was pushed at gunpoint to the military van, and asked to lead them to the claimed torture location, accusing him of lying. Villagers Found a dead man in Military Fatigue, on 2 October 2024, in an advanced state of decomposition. First there was panic as the ADF kidnappers in the village, had promised to kill a military person and dump in the village, so the military can come in and brutalize the villagers who have tried in vain severally to evict the kidnappers from their community

Neba Vitalis’ Corpse in an advanced state of Decomposition

Vitalis was adorned with FrenchCameroun Military uniform and true to his word that he was tortured at an ADF camp in his own village, at gun point, led the military to the location where he was jailed and tortured; which was his late brothers abandoned house. Unable to locate the kidnappers as they had moved their jail to another house in the area, the military then emptied their bullets unto Vitalis. He was shot and dumped at a little bush in front of their family home. It was in their retreat that the Cameroun military spotted the new jail where some of the ADF boys were holding two hostages including business woman, Sama Hilda. The military then opened fire, which caught Sama Hilda. The ADF kidnappers flee as usual following the sound of military guns.

False Narratives of Military on Mission to Rescue Sama Hilda and Co.

Mrs. Sama Hilda

The narrative that the military went purposely to rescue Hilda and her co-victim is false. They are not the first victims of kidnapping in Bamenda. Worst of it, they are anglophones with no name nor CPDm recognition. The French Cameroun military that has no regard for anglophone lives could not risk their own lives to save inconsequential anglophones. Another version indicates that one of the kidnapped(teacher) was outside the ADF jail house when military arrived. Survivors of the ADF kidnappings from the area laughed at such ignorance. “These boys tie your eyes and administer a staple dose of torture, with promises to kill you until money comes. You have no freedom because they are afraid that you might escape.” A torture survivor narrates. Vitalis was buried in a shallow grave by his decomposing body by the villagers not knowing he was one of theirs. “They buried my husband like a dog.” the wife laments.

Vitali is the 5th Innocent person Killed or Maimed by the military in less than two months in the area

It was after the family could not communicate with Neba that investigations reveal that he was the one that the military had forcefully taken to the war front in their operations. Even after his killings, the Cameroun military as usual in their disregard for human life in the Anglophone regions, informed nobody. Vitalis is the 5th innocent civilians killed in the same area by the Cameroun Military, with none of the ADF kidnappers, touched prompting many to believe in the romance between the two. The villagers have been tortured and continue to be tortured daily by the ADF kidnappers. They fear for their own lives and praying for the day these kidnappers who are all strangers from other villages will just leave their community as the pain from them and the Cameroun military is unbearable.

(Read our full story of the other victims, including Sama Hilda(who unfortunately got some media buzz) soon).

More Images of Vitalis’ Torture From ADF Captivity