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Four Cameroonian soldiers jailed 40 years for murdering women and children

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September 22, 2020
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London, Sep. 22, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Four Cameroonian soldiers were on Monday sent to forty years in jail for the killing of two women and two children in an incident that sparked international outcry.

Four Cameroonian soldiers jailed 40 years for murdering women and children

They and three other soldiers were arrested after a video surfaced on social media in July 2018 showing uniformed men levelling rifles and firing at the victims, one of whom had a baby strapped to her back.

The video was one of several to emerge in recent years of alleged atrocities by Cameroonian forces during operations against Islamist Boko Haram militants in the north and Anglophone separatists in the west.

This is the video that went viral. We’ve cut out the ending, but – WARNING – it’s distressing. pic.twitter.com/6JJrdJqurW

— BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) September 24, 2018

The trial of the Cameroonian soldiers started in January and has been conducted behind closed doors.

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On Monday, the court found three of the soldiers guilty of murder, while their commander Etienne Fabassou was found guilty of complicity in murder, according to his lawyer Sylvestre Mbeng.

All four were given ten years each

Another soldier received a two-year sentence for violating orders, while two others were found not guilty on all counts and released, Mbeng told Reuters.

Under Cameroonian law, some of the defendants could have faced the death penalty, although Cameroon has not executed anyone since 1997.

Mbeng said Fabassou would likely appeal the verdict as witnesses gave contradictory accounts of whether he gave the order to shoot.

Government and army officials initially dismissed the video as “fake news”.

But the soldiers’ eventual arrest and prosecution were welcomed by activists, including Amnesty International, who accuse government soldiers of repeatedly engaging in torture and extra-judicial killings in the far north.

The government denies systematic abuses.

“All victims of human rights violations perpetrated by Cameroonian security forces in the fight against Boko Haram deserve fair justice granted by ordinary courts,” said Amnesty’s regional director Samira Daoud in response to the ruling. 

(REUTERS)

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