Ngarbuh Massacre: Kumbo Bishop points at Cameroon Military
by Pavlov Vellenvevinyo
The 14 February 2020, Valentine’s Day, world day for lovers was instead dark day, as denizens of Donga Mantung and Bui Division in the Diocese of Kumbo, woke up to a horrendous massacre of women and children in the community of Ngarbuh. As had been the trend, conflicting reports on who committed such atrocious act on women and children arose and speculations were rife. The Cameroon national media – CRTV upheld its own version of the horrifying incident, while social media and mouth-to-ear news held its own version.
The Bishop of Kumbo, His Lordship Bishop George Nkuo remained unequivocal in stating that the Cameroon government military forces were responsible for these brutal murder of women, children and toddlers in the village of Ngarbuh in Donga Mantung County.
The Bishop’s statement on the evil incident came just a few hours after 16 Catholic Bishops around the world had published a circular calling for the withdrawal of military forces from the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, and for a general amnesty to Anglophone Leaders of the Ambazonian quest for independence – the Nera 10 – and other Ambazonian activists held in infectious prisons all around Cameroon. The world Bishops religiously implored the 87-years old Cameroon dictator to seek long lasting solutions to the war in Ambazonia through meaningful Dialogue with Separatists.
It should be recalled that these brutal and genocidal forces from la République du Cameroun acted on February 14, generally observed as world lovers’ day to extinguish life out of thirty-two 32 Southern Cameroonian, most of whom were women and children. This blood-thirsty Beti-Bulu French speaking militia, apparently unable to stand the combat spirit and brute force of the Ambazonian fighters in Bui County, transferred aggression to armless civilians in a pure act of vengeance.
In a bid to cover up their shameful act and whitewash their false posturing as processional military forces of law and order, a communiqué was hatched from the Ministry of Defence’s communication department covering up the exact number of French Cameroon soldiers that carried out the heinous mission of February 14, that took 32 lives.
Several fact-finding NGOs and humanitarian conflict resolution organisations attempted to establish the truth of the Ngarbuh massacre on the spur of the moment to no avail.
The communication department of the Ministry of Defence held that only six (6) French Cameroon military soldiers partook in the Friday 14 killings. They claimed only 5 civilians including 4 children and a woman were executed. Eyewitnesses and civil society activists like Agbor Balla, a human rights lawyer, wholly denounced and denied these government allegations.
The level of repression and intimidation by the dictatorial regime of Yaounde for quite a long time prevented the truth about the exact number of denizens that were brutally murdered by so-called forces of law and order. The Bishop of Kumbo had given his own report of the massacre and stood his grounds as per the victims.
