AMBAZONIAN FEMALE REFUGEES ABUSED IN LRC
They are raped, exploited as cheap labour and promised salaries not paid them.
Undaunted has gathered that Rights groups are protesting what they call dehumanizing treatment of women and children;
victims of Ambazonian war taking refuge in neighbouring LRC The rights groups say displaced women and girls are forced into physical and sexual abuse and domestic labour without pay.
This revelation Undaunted learns has been made public by the Association for the Fight against Violence on Women and Young Girls.
Undaunted equally learned that a human rights activist; Jeanette Ebale, described this as “very disheartening” adding that “so many women and girls fleeing the scotching Ambazonia war of independence do not find peace, love and comfort in French Cameroun towns.”
Madam Ebale says her strong message on Human Rights Day is that civilians should denounce those who physically and sexually abuse women and girls displaced by Ambazonia liberation war. She says 130 of the roughly 370 displaced females who rushed to her association for help after they were raped or forced into prostitution in the past two months were diagnosed with gonorrhea, chlamydia and or syphilis.
Eighteen-year old Immaculate Efossi escaped from Mamfe LGA in February after the colonial LRC military men burnt down a girls' school dormitory at Queen of the Rosary College. She says she spent two months living in the courtyard of the Roman Catholic Church cathedral in French-speaking Douala. Efossi adds that a man who promised her a domestic worker job instead abused her sexually and she worked for seven moths without a dime living only on a meagre one meal a day.
Undaunted was reliably informed that the colonial LRCC's government has admitted that children in the war – torn Ambazonia face violence, kidnapping, rape, being forced out of schools and into early marriage, and recruitment by the liberation fighters. When these children escape to French-speaking towns for safety, many become homeless, lack an education and are forced into prostitution and hard labour in plantations, street hawking and petty trading. Some are raped, arbitrarily arrested, detained and tortured.
Rights groups say it is difficult to know the number of women and girls whose rights are violated because most victims stay quiet for fear of reprisal and some have even lost their lives through these dehumanising vices The U.N. says the separatist crisis in the Southern Cameroons - Ambazonia that degenerated into an armed conflict in 2017 has claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced about a million paople
Human Rights Day is celebrated every December 10, the day on which, in 1948, the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Sourthen Cameroon Rights Groups Demand Protection of Displaced Women and Children From Rights Abuses
