Cameroon: Execution of 150 Nigerians By Defence Forces - Gov't Refutes Associated Press Allegations

Hereunder is a press release from the Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary.

A dispatch from the "Associated Press" (AP) news agency posted on its website on 8 December, 2015 reports of alleged abuses by Cameroonian Defence Forces during sweep operations conducted in the vicinity of the border with Nigeria in the Far North region, in which no less than 150 villagers of Nigerian nationality were executed, their homes burned down and their property looted and stolen by our soldiers in Nigerian territory.

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