Boko Haram victims’ tribute ceremony called off

A ceremony to pay tribute to the victims of the Islamist sect Boko Haram, scheduled for Thursday in Yaounde was canceled by the prefectural authorities who cited “public order”, APA learns on site.

Scheduled to be held late on the morning at the headquarters of the foundation Tandeng Muna, the demonstration organized by the Collective for a United Cameroon was interrupted by the police who closed premises and dispersed attendants.

In addition to a planned speech, organizers had programed to show a fresco featuring some 1,200 Cameroonians names killed since the beginning of the Islamist sect insurrection.

It could be recalled that Boko Haram is blamed for the death of 1,098 civilians, 67 soldiers and three police in Cameroon between 2013 and early 2016 in a total of 315 raids, 12 mine explosions and 32 suicide bombings in the Far North of the country.

Last Tuesday, a press conference convened by an opposition coalition was banned and dispersed in Yaounde for the same reason whiles the forty organizers and participants were arrested before being released a few hours later.