Cameroon activists  say there’s been considerable interest shown by members of the PAP lobbied at their committee meetings in Midrand this week.

Nkongho Felix Agbor of the Centre For Human Rights and Democracy in Africa says visit to the PAP follows a petition to the body calling on parliamentarians to make the Cameroonian issue a priority.

Agbor says the situation is Cameroon has deteriorated since the English-speaking started campaigning against marginalization and oppression.

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Agbor himself spend nine months in jail and faced military tribunal which violated the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.

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They say the continental body has a responsibility to debate the worsening crisis in the Central African country which now has the sixth largest displaced population in the world.

The Pan African Parliament has been eerily silent on Cameroon where at least 1800 people have been ordered and half a million people displaced by a crackdown on the English-speaking minority in the west of the country.

That because the PAP President Roger Nkoda Dang is a member of President Paul Biya’s ruling  party.

Felix Nkongho of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa and Maximilienne Mbe of the Network of Central African Human Rights Defenders have arrived to be heard by the PAP committee currently in session.

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One persons died in the attack.

The separatists are calling for the release of their leader who’s jailed and facing the death penalty.

The Anglophone Cameroonians, who make up a fifth of the country’s 17-million population, say they want a separate state in the south west of the nation  they say has marginalized them

The authorities under President Paul Biya have dealt harshly with any acts of rebellion.

At the time of the attack on the Francophone town, the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa has condemned the killing of Anglophone protestors by security forces in Cameroon

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