The protracted civil war between Cameroon’s army and Anglophone militants fighting for a breakaway state produced a new wave of violence in recent months.
Forty-nine patients narrowly escaped death on June 8 when unidentified gunmen attacked and burnt the Mamfe District Hospital in the crisis-hit Southwest Region that serves more than 85,000 people.
Both the Cameroon military and Anglophone separatist fighters accuse each other of the attack.
Rights groups, however, point accusing fingers at the rebels.
“This attack was undoubtedly committed by a non-state armed group in the area,” Billy Burton, co-director of Cameroon Anglophone Crisis Database of Atrocities told The Epoch Times in a text….