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-`Security forces committed numerous extra judicial killings; reportedly were responsible for disappearances ,some of which may have been politically motivated ; and tortured and often beat and otherwise abused detainees and prisoners, generally with impunity...Conditions remained harsh and life threatening in almost all prisons ...Security forces continued to arrest and detain arbitrarily .....often holding them for prolonged periods , often without charges or chance for trial and, at times, incommunicado.(page2).

-Numerous prisoners died in custody due to abuse inflicted by members of the security forces or harsh prison conditions and inadequate medical treatment(see section 1.c).
SAMUEL MUKO , one of several Anglophones arrested in the Northwest Province in September 1998 on suspicion of manufacturing guns and subsequently detained in Bafoussam Central Prison in the West Province , died in the Gendarmerie Hospital in Bafoussam in October reportedly as a result of mistreatment allegedly including torture and starvation in prison. MUKO allegedly weighed only 100 pounds when he died.. According to reliable reports , at least eight detainees held after March 1997 attacks on government installations in the Northwest Province died from abuse or illness and inadequate care since their imprison (see section 1.c). According to a human rights group in Bamenda , Patrick Jimbou died in Yaounde’s Jamot Hospital on June 28 after a lengthy illness due to poor treatment in prison and Laurence Fai died on August 31,1998(from brutality by prison  guards).(page3)

On september 29,1998 ,Thomas Ngoh an Anglophone ...died in detention by gendarmes in the town of Wum in the North west Province . According to a post mortem report by a doctor of Wum Main Hospital , Ngoh die of a fracture of the Stenum ,and his corpse also had several other broken bones, was missing toenails that had been pulled out , and had large injuries on the back and buttocks  as well as candles wax drippings on parts of the body . Ngoh had been detained on September 27 by Gendarmes...(Page 4).

-Government officials at the Nkondengui and Mfou production prisons near Yaounde continued to inflict severe physical abuse on the incarcerated survivors of the Anglophones who were arrested in a security force dragnet following armed attacks in March 1997 on the government facilities in the North West Province (see Section 1.e). Two individauls acquitted of the same charges by a  military tribunal in 1997 and released in 1998 , alleged that they had been tortured repeatedly , often by flogging , at the garrison of the Lakeside gendarmie company in Yaounde. The Anglophones have argued consistently that their original confessions were extracted through torture. Such torture ranged from severe beating to being forced to walk on sharp objects while barefoot. One of these detainees(Ndifet Zacharia Khan) had to have all his toes removed due to the extend  of his injuries from bastinade torture. Although the military court that tried these detainees allowed them to State these charges , it did not rule the testimony extracted through torture as inadmissible.(Page5). photo

-....Prisoner’s families are expected to provide food for their relatives in prison. Prison  officials torture , beat , and otherwise abuse prisoners (see Section 1.c.). Prisoners routinely die due to harsh prison conditions and .....Prisoners reportedly are chained or flogged at times in their cells and often are denied adequate medical care.
-Numerous NGO’s ,diplomatic missions, and the NCHRF all have criticized publicly the conditions of the group of Anglophones detainees arrested in 1997. One reliable report described 28 detainees sharing a cell measuring 14 square meters(about 140 square feet).At least eight of the original detainees reportedly have died from abuse or lack(denial) of medical care: Emmanuel Konseh , Samuel Tita, Mathias Gwei, Neba Ambe, Mado Nde, Richard Fomusoh Ngwa, Patrick Jimbou, and Lawrence Fai.(page 7)
-.....Officials denied U.N Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights Nigel Rodley access in May to holding cells operated by the government’s special antigang unit(see Section 1.a.and 1.b)(page 8)....

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