A former separatist fighter who recently turned himself up to police claimed that the five government employees had been killed and buried after being abducted in the unrest-ridden South-West region of Cameroon in 2021. This information prompted the exhumation of the bodies in a far-off village.
They were then exhumed from their grave after he led security personnel there.
The officials’ burial was discovered after security personnel spent several hours searching a forest in the Ndian administrative area. Their carcasses had already begun to rot, making it difficult to distinguish each one of them.
In June 2021, after being abducted by separatists while performing their official duties, the local delegates who oversaw the administration of government in the Ndian division were killed. Their whereabouts remained a mystery for two years.
Six delegates were abducted in total, but according to rumours, one corpse was transported to a nearby city in 2021. The bodies of the remaining five were brought to the town for a time of grief.
Since 2017, when English-speaking separatist fighters took up guns and demanded a breakaway nation, Cameroon‘s two Anglophone regions have been embroiled in a war.
They have been charged with egregious human rights breaches like kidnapping, torturing, and murder. Additionally, government forces have been charged with significant crimes and atrocities.