Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill urging Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to hold the government of Cameroon accountable for human rights abuses linked to Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis. The Feb. 2 bill came after a damning report by Human Rights Watch detailing the killing of children and women by Cameroonian soldiers during three separate military operations in the embattled northwest English-speaking region last December. At least eight people, including three children, two women, and an elderly man, were killed while dozens of homes were razed during the raid, according to the report. “The consistent retaliatory, punitive raids by state forces into local communities routinely result in serious human rights violations, including the destruction and burning of villages, arbitrary arrest, and extrajudicial killings,” Billy Burton, co-director of Cameroon Anglophone Crisis Database of Atrocities, told The Epoch Times. In a recent report, the group asserted Cameroonian government soldiers conducted “wide-scale …
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