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Students kidnapped in Cameroon are released according to government information. Two adult employees of the school were still detained. For kidnappings, English-speaking separatists should be responsible.
According to the government, students who were deported early in the north-west of Cameroon are free again. "All students are released," said Communications Minister Issa Bakary Tchiroma, AFP. They are all intact, reported the British broadcaster BBC and the French foreign television channel RFI. Nothing is known about the circumstances of the liberation.
Two employees remain in captivity
Fonki Samuel Forba, of the Presbyterian Church of Cameroon, said that two of the three detained employees of the school were still under the control of the kidnappers. They were taken to a church near Bamenda, in the west of the country. They were apparently tired and suffered during their captivity.
For security reasons, the church will close its schools in the area at the moment, Fonki said. "We called the parents and told them that they could take their children home with them now."
The identity of the kidnappers remains unclear
The army launched Tuesday a large-scale search, which initially failed. The army and warring separatists in western CAR state that they are responsible for the kidnapping.
The Bamenda School, the largest English-speaking city in Cameroon, according to the German mission company "Mission 21" according to the end of October removal goal. The organization supporting the Bamenda school said that the identity of the kidnappers was not clear.
The minority aspires to independence
The antecedents to the conflict in western Cameroon are allegations by the English-speaking minority that the government unilaterally prefers the French-speaking majority in the country. The English-speaking part of Cameroon, northwest and southwest, accounts for about one-fifth of the total population.
President Paul Biya lashes out against the independence movement. He rejects the negotiations. Protests from teachers and judges who had called for an approximation of living conditions two years earlier had violently crushed the army.
Since then, the situation has worsened. Both parties are accused of serious violations of human rights. According to non-governmental organizations, 400 civilians and 175 members of the police and army were reportedly killed in 2018 alone. The United Nations estimates that there are approximately 200,000 refugees.
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