**5.4 Internet shutdown**

*Education, Human Rights and Peace in Sustainable Development*

police man brutally pushed her in the puddle.

**5.3 The molestation of the general public**

pants shouted and lamented.

mud. He lay helplessly in the hands of his comrades.

dangled in their hands while those around him lamented.

rubbing her head in it.

The video entitled "2 police and Gendarmes severely torturing University Students in Buea, Buea strike [33] shows with a lot of noise in the background, two policemen harassing university students in their neighborhood. Three university students are laying down, one in a puddle and a female student is brought in and the

"Attend d'abord, je vais te giffler hei," the policeman said in French threatening to slap the girl and then the girl's leg is pulled and is forcefully pulled in the puddle,

"They go kill man," they camera man exclaimed that they would kill them. The Southern Cameroon updates: Police Brutality at UB 28/11/2016 [34] certainly taken from a story building shows how a group of police and gendarmes in the street of Molyko molested a young man. While one of the policemen was pulling him ahead, another one came from behind and kicked him and he fell down. It is clearly seen how one of the security officers had wounded a female student's head, one also sees a student whose t-shirt had been torn and blood dripping from his head.

The video: Université de Buéa - les forces de l'ordre entrent dans les residences et tortuent des etudiants [35] starts with the camera woman inviting fellow students to run for safety. "Yuna enter o-o-o-h," she invited other students. Then students are seen running very fast into their residence for safety as scores of security men followed them behind with batons. They caught some married women and hit them severely. "They go kill we that married woman them, I swear," the camera women lamented. A woman is drawn from her house and mercilessly hit by the security officers. "Pour les hommes faire les descendre," an order is given in French to bring out all men. "Faire descendre tout les hommes," the order is repeated for emphasis. A boy is removed from his house and the French-speaking security officers hit his head with their batons. "Amenez-le, ca va," an order is given and the boy is held from his belt.

The Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa [36] reported that at least 14 student hostels were attacked that day. More than 140 rooms were vandalized, their occupants tortured on the Buea (Molyko) main boulevard, and some students were asked to sing that "an Anglophone will never rule the country." Even though most students were finally released, several of them spent 3 days in detention facilities in overcrowded cell conditions, with little or no communication with their families.

The video Bamenda in turmoil today December, 2006, part 1 [37] shows a group of predominantly young men lamenting because a police had shot one of the protesters who wore a t-shirt with white and red lines on it, stained by blood and

"Oh my God, wait, wait. Bring he s-o, hold i hand," they held him and he

The video This is Bamenda [38] shows a group of young men carrying peace plants and marching very fast in a street in Bamenda. They were carrying a dead young man to the main street in Bamenda called the Commercial Avenue. The commentator said "Bamenda is turning into something else," which means that many people are dying in Bamenda, and then he calls on "BBC, CNN and Alzeera, you guys need to support us, people are dying," he said. The spectators and the partici-

"Y-e-e-u-h Bamenda, Bamenda, Bamenda, Bamenda," he shouted several times. "w-e–e–e-h massa," he shouted several times again. Then the dead man is shown with a blue band that fastened him to the stick he was tied. He is being carried away by other young men marching very fast and singing: "Amba, Amba, Ambazonia." It

means they identify themselves more with Ambazonia than Cameroon.

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The various videos incriminated Cameroon security forces and therefore as a result as [27] shows Cameroon experienced its first Internet shutdown in January 2017 for 93 days. It came after Anglophone teachers, lawyers, and students went on strike over alleged social bias in favor of Francophones. Education, financial, and health-care institutions as well as businesses that relied on Internet access were stunted. International bodies applied pressure on the government to restore Internet access. Despite Internet access being restored in April 2017, there were continuing reports of network instability. In October 2017, the government effected a second Internet blockade, targeting social media and apps such as Whatsapp and Facebook where such videos as those described above were sent. It continuously affected the country economically, and many citizens were forced to travel back and forth to regions with Internet access for business or information.
