11th February, 2022
Separatist fighters torched a secondary school in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region on Friday to enforce lockdown called to disrupt National Youth Day activities in the region, according to the police.
The militias stormed Queen of Rosary College in Okoyong locality of the region while students were waking up from sleep and burned down the dormitories of the school.
“The children were really frightened. They threatened to kill them if they take part in activities of the National Youth Day. Luckily, none of the students was hurt,” a senior military official in the region who asked not to be named told Xinhua.
Separatist leaders had imposed a lockdown in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions as a measure to disrupt National Youth Day activities which are being held in the Central African nation on Friday.
On Thursday, the fighters said on social media that they were holding hostage a passenger bus and several passengers who were being transported to take part in the event in Buea, chief town of Southwest.
Separatists said the event was “illegal” in the two Anglophone regions where they have been clashing with government forces since 2017 in a bid to create an independent nation they called “Ambazonia”.
