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Cameroon – Honor and Loyalty : Self-styled human rights ngos: Caught between denial and dishonesty

The harsh rhetoric and sweeping statements of indignation from the dubiouslocal and international human rights world, now an integral part of our security challenges and conflicts, if not the protagonists to varying degrees, have all come to naught.

One does not need to be malicious to note withtotal amazement that neither the massacre of innocent citizens traveling on our roads, nor even the looting, the ransacking and then the burning of a place of worship, and the taking hostage of many faithful, haveattracted the slightest sympathyfrom those who proclaimed themselves defenders of human freedoms.

Even the mainstream media have condescended to grace us with their usual special pages, in which intentionally biased reports, exclusively incriminating testimonies and skilfully biased expert opinions spread misinformation and intoxication, which have in turncreated an atmosphere of psychosis and exacerbated tensions.

This time again, like all the other times when gangsterism disguised as separatism, was illustrated by bloody feats of arms, it’s dead calm all along the line, as if the suffering imposed on our people by the terrorist nebula did not deserve to disturb the serenity of an emotional oscilloscope that is only too quick to panic at the first rumour of abuse supposedly perpetrated by our Defence and Security Forces.

Such callous indifference can only be explained by the intention of trivialising terrorism, in order to ensureits continued existence within Cameroonian territory. It is clearly not in the interest of the global project of reshaping spheres of influence, to insist on the acts of an international terrorist group under orders, the best being to water down these acts by comparing them with alleged violence attributed to public security services.

It is also the time for non-governmental organisations with hybrid capitalto create situations that aredetrimental to the reputation of our law enforcement agencies, and it will not be long before we see a proliferation of defamatory reports.The mutinies of today will anchor on these documents to demand from Cameroon, the setting up of commissions of inquiry composed of supposedly independent figures, whosestatuswill be attested to only by our beloved organisations of a resolutely partisan civil society.