Tag #Repressive Violence

What specific actions did France take in Cameroon during and after its decolonization, and what were the immediate human consequences?

President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged France's "war" in Cameroon, marked by "repressive violence" during and after the country's decolonization. A historical commission found France used mass forced displacement, internment camps, and supported brutal militias to suppress Cameroon's push for sovereignty, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands displaced between 1956 and 1961.