Systematic and widespread attacks by armed separatist groups on students, teachers, and schools in Cameroon's Anglophone regions since 2017 have had a devastating impact on children's right to education, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 131-page report, "They Are Destroying Our Future: Armed Separatist Attacks on Students, Teachers, and Schools in Cameroon's Anglophone Regions," documents scores of education-related attacks by armed separatist groups in the English-speaking North-West and South-West regions between March 2017 and November 2021. The groups have killed, beaten, abducted, threatened, and terrorized students and education professionals; harassed and intimidated families into keeping their children out of school; and burned, destroyed, damaged, and looted school buildings. 

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