Social media footage of the French President telling a Cameroon activist that he’s pressured Biya into releasing a jailed opposition parliament and  ending human rights abuses has gone viral.

French President Emmanuel Macron was filmed after 22 people were killed  in the English-speaking north-west of Cameroon  by men in military uniform.

Macron speaks on the film of intolerable human rights violations in Cameroon and says he’ll press President Paul Biya  to ensure there are no further killings.

The protesting youths say Macron should have respect for his elder and not make Biya look like his stooge.

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More than 350 of them have been arrested while demonstrating for the release of opposition leader Maurice Kamto.

Octogenarian President Paul Biya has his hands full dealing with the disaffected Anglophone majority in his country.

Last week his police killed a four-month-old baby among protestors in the English-speaking west of Cameroon.

Now the police have turned on Francophone opponents of Biya, who has been in power for 35 years.

Maurice Kamto and scores of his supporters were arrested after he claimed victory in last October’s presidential election.

Those supporters are defying police, and risking death and injury, by taking to the streets of the capital Yaoundè demanding his release.

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Authorities in Yaoundè, who initially dismissed footage of the killings as fake news, now says seven soldiers have been arrested.

The BBC Africa Eye team’s being congratulated for its sleuthing work that identified the killers.

It remains to be seen whether the men, who killed two woman and their children – one of them a baby tied to its mother’s back – will be brought to book in Cameroon.

The footage, too gruesome to be shown on You Tube shows the victims  being shot 22 times because the women were suspected to being Boko Haram sympathizers.

The television team used satellite and other cutting edge technology to ascertain where and when the killing occurred. 

Informants named the assassins.

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