Map of Cameroon's Anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions 喀麦隆讲英语的西北和西南地区地图
雅温得，喀麦隆——
来自喀麦隆陷入困境的英语地区的立法者呼吁增派军队，以保护官员、政府工作人员及其家人免受分裂分子的侵害。议员们周三晚上在喀麦隆议会发表讲话时说，反叛分子在过去一个月里绑架了数百名官员及其家人，并杀害了至少 20 名工人。
Cavaye Yeguie Djibril it the speaker of Cameroon’s National Assembly, called the lower house of parliament. He said Wednesday that several hundred elected officials, government workers and their families are being held captive by separatists in the western regions.
He says insecurity caused by separatist rebels and their brutality is increasing by the day and lawmakers, village chiefs and government workers are among the highest victims. Djibril says lawmakers are pleading with civilians to denounce fighters hiding in their villages and towns and report all suspects and their hideout to the military. Djibril says militias should be created in all English-speaking towns and villages to assist government troops to protect civilians and fight separatists.
The lawmakers say separatists have killed at least 20 government workers in the last month.
Leke Besongoh Akemfor Phillip is a lawmaker representing the Southwest region in the upper house of parliament. He says a majority of English-speaking lawmakers, mayors, local councilors and village chiefs and their families have relocated to Cameroon's capital, Yaounde, for safety.
“The government should increase security because terrorists [separatist rebels] kidnap senators, parliamentarians and other state functionaries and demand ransom," said Akemfor. "So, if the government can get security operatives to wipe the hideouts, those terrorists will not be able to stay within settlement areas. When this is done, we can go back and know that our security is guaranteed.”
Capo Daniel is the deputy defense chief of the Ambazonia Defense Forces, one of Cameroon’s separatist groups. He acknowledges that separatists are attacking and abducting Cameroon’s government workers and elected officials who represent the central government.
He says the attack on government workers and elected officials is part of their campaign to make English-speaking regions ungovernable by the central government in Yaounde.
“Every Cameroon government official in our territory will be arrested. We will intensify our attacks against the administrative representatives," said Daniel. "We are fighting to free ourselves from occupation and recolonization.”
Capo acknowledged that scores of civilians accused of collaborating with the central government are being held hostage in camps by separatists, and did not say if they will be freed.
He denied that rebels with separatist groups kidnap people for ransom, but said armed groups in the western regions carry out that practice.
The military says it will protect all civilians and their goods, and the central government says elected officials, government workers and village chiefs who need additional security can apply to the military.
2022 年 6 月的一份人权观察报告指责喀麦隆分离主义分子在袭击中残暴行径，并称自 1 月以来，武装分子至少实施了 80 次绑架。
据联合国称，自 2017 年以来，喀麦隆的分裂主义冲突已造成 3,300 多人死亡，另有 750,000 多人流离失所。
