Friday, February fourteenth, the UN says at least 22 people have been killed in a village in the Northwest region of Cameroon. Over half of those killed were children. No one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident but the opposition parties blame the killing on the government.
Police interrupted activities in gay joint in Yaounde
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Mistral bar in the Essos neighborhood of Yaoundé, does not advertise itself as a gay bar but
was widely considered a place where many gay men could feel safe.
After blocking all conceivable entrances and exits with
large police vans, two police officers entered the bar.
‘People became anxious as they began to think of
themselves as hostages,’ a Cameroon gay activist, writing for 76 Crimes under the
pseudonym of Erin Royal Brokovitch, said.
‘Police then ordered people to leave the bar and checked
for identification cards at the exit. Outside, with or without ID cards, all
the bar patrons were ordered onto police trucks.
‘Police patrols were stationed at every corner of the
cabaret — in front, beside, inside, behind.
‘As if it were a commando operation, armed police
searched inside the bar for people hiding there. Some bar-goers tried to escape
out the back, but another police truck was parked there.’
It is unclear the number of people who were arrested at
the weekend, but some online reports suggest it was ‘dozens’. The charges are
also unknown.
Cameroon is largely considered one of the worst places in
the world to be LGBTI. Homosexuality is illegal in Cameroon, punished by up to
five years in prison. Attitudes to LGBTI people are hostile and there are
frequent reports of arrests, mob violence, assaults, torture and murder.
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