The world said "never again" after Rwanda — but the civil war in Cameroon is trending towards genocide, according to this journalist-turned-refugee.
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00:00I left Cameroon in January of 2017 while I was on my way trying to run out of the country
00:08I actually met situations where they shot young people dead right in front of me
00:13and you see this is a very traumatic experience
00:30The situation on the field is one of total brutality
00:38The people of Southern Cameroon are being massacred in droves on a daily basis
00:43using all kinds of heavy weaponry and all of those things
00:48extrajudicial killings, rampant and unjustified arrests, torture, looting
00:55Perhaps they want to wait until it gets to the scale of Rwanda
01:00They started a manhunt for all of us, the rest of us had to go underground
01:18That same day, they disconnected internet access to the entire Southern Cameroon
01:25and made sure that they would hold everybody incommunicado
01:3095% of the workforce are Francophones
01:41All the top officials are Francophones
01:43The top management have never ever been entrusted in the hands of the people of the Southern Cameroon
01:49who are treated as second class citizens
02:01Many people have died, many more than 10,000 souls have gone
02:12I would like to remind the world that after the genocide in Rwanda in 1994
02:17the United Nations and all the superpowers came together and issued a policy
02:23They called it Never Again
02:25That policy indicated that the world would never ever sit quiet
02:29and watch such a human disaster like what happened in Rwanda to happen
02:39If they withdraw their army of occupation
02:42we sit down and have a kind of negotiation on exactly how we go our separate ways
02:49There is still a possibility for us to separate in peace
02:52But if they continue down the road that they are continuing
02:55what happened in Rwanda happened before everybody
03:00We are almost there