Several British Southern Cameroonian citizens, members of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), were arrested in the Tiko on October 6th, 2008 by the colonial occupation forces of the French Cameroun Republic. Their crime? Meeting as free men and women in a private residence.
The British Southern Cameroons government considers this arrest and detention as a criminal kidnapping, and one more in a historical pattern of state-sponsored acts of terror by the occupying French Cameroun Republic in a desperate need to hold on to their increasingly tenuous presence in the Southern Cameroons territory.
We have received reports that these detainees have been beaten and tortured by the criminal and brutal French-trained gendarmes of the Camerounese occupation forces. Those arrested (ages are in brackets) are:
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