Torture in Cameroon

Justice Overdue
Upon taking up office on the 6th of November 1986, President Paul Biya of Cameroon created a regime foiled by tribalism, hatred and ethnic cleansing

Today, the Youths of Cameroon are calling on the international community to refer Biya to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for Crimes of Genocide and inhumanity against the people of Cameroon

Julius Che
Freedom Magazine (+44)(0)7466592667 Freedomagazine@gmail.com 3/2/2012

The Southern Cameroons Youth League

[S.C.Y.L]

Torture Analysis Questionnaire on the Southern Cameroons

Version 07-12 1997 - 2009

In collaboration with: Tort for Torture Yaound, La Republique du Cameroun

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Torture Analysis Questionnaire 1997-2009

General Objective
The aim of this project is to provoke an international investigation as to how torture has been exercised by Paul - Bartholomew Biya Bi Mvondo as President of La Republique du Cameroun in the period 1997 to 2009 The results of this Project shall form the basis for our impending law suit with the hope that bringing Paul Biya Bi Mvondo to justice will not only go a long way to satisfy the aspirations of suffering families but will also yield the wounds that they might have suffered under his rule Another very important issue that this project will highlight is the documentation of acts of torture and other human rights violations in order that the people will have the advantage to move from disputed information to real facts and figures and establish the basis for us to gather and share such violations as they occur

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Introduction:

Ever since 1989/1990 that the struggle by the Southern Cameroons reignited their zeal for a separate homeland, they have met with torture and other human rights violations under Paul Biya Bi Mvondo. The most outstanding contention during this struggle has been the absence of appropriate documentation as to the number of victims that has fallen under the cruel hands of Paul Biya regime. Therefore, the purpose of this project is aimed at:

1.Documenting information as to the true facts and figures of victims 2.Sharing such truth will only form the basis for any future negotiations or litigation

Questions
1. Personal Information.

Names: Male Date of birth: Addreess: Identification Card:

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Female

2. Is this information being given out by you or someone else? Yes No

a - If no, please give your name and relation to the victim. Name: Relation to victim: Identification Card:

3. Circumstances of victimization
[Were you aware at the time of participation and or arrest that you will be tortured?]

4. Circumstances of victimization
[Were you aware or made to be aware of the circumstances surrounding your arrest and subsequent procedures and or process. Were you afraid of being prosecuted or being persecuted?]

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Analysis 5. Torture effect analysis

[Do you consider yourself a victim of torture? Then you can move on with the questions]

Time testing
[Time lapse between Arrest / Release / Violence / Current assessment and Rehabilitation]

Questions
6. Yes/No
a - [Have you ever been tortured or fear of being tortured] b - [Can you identify the kind of torture you went through] c - [Do you have any symptoms of torture?]
Yes Yes Yes No No No

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Brief explanation i - [Where and when were you tortured?]

ii - [What was the reason for the torture?]

7. Quantitative
1 2 Rate questions on a scale of 1 to 5. 3 4 5 a. [Have you ever been beaten on- falanga, buttocks, head, back, indiscriminately by the police or gendarme?] b. [Have you ever been exposed to heat, darkness, light, and noise, and cold, water by the police or gendarme?] c. [Have you ever been assaulted with a- baton, gun but, punch, slapped, kicked, whipped by a police or gendarme] d. [Have you ever suffered from suffocation- through submersion, lack of oxygen by a police or gendarme] Strongly disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly agree

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e. [Have you ever suffered from burns as a result of -electric shock, cigarette burn, plastic drop from a police or gendarme] f. [Have you ever been placed in an abnormal position-handcuff, chained, forced position, balancois, suspension by a police or gendarme] g. [Have you ever been sexually tortured through- rape, violence of genitalia, forced pregnancy, insertion of objects into the vagina, hanging loads on the penis by the police or gendarme]

h. [Have you ever been deprived of social contact, perceptual, sleep, and nutrition by the police or gendarme] i. [Have you ever been exposed to coercion-impossible choose, humiliation, blind obedience, disclosure of information, signing false statements, forced participation in torture, violation of taboo, witness torture of others, false accusation by the police or gendarme] j. [Have you ever been forced to undress before others, verbal abuse, photographed naked, forced to assume humiliation position, witness sexual torture, yelling, threats, denied medical treatment, abuse of drugs by the police or gendarme] k. [Do you suffer from any disability as a result of torture- hypersomnia, nightmares, fear, worry, panic, illusion, depersonalization, hallucination, suicide thoughts, disorganized behavior, and loss of hope, feeling of shame, sexual dysfunction, and withdrawal from social activities as a result of torture and after effect from the police or gendarme?] l. [Do you or have you ever gotten counseling and or treatment or legal redress?]

8. Qualitative
a. [How old were you during your first torture] b. [How many times have you been tortured or feared being tortured] c. [Do you feel safe?] d. [Who are / were your perpetrators?] e. [Have you ever or had the means to confront those who tortured you?] f. [Have you talked to someone in the past about your ordeal ]

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