29. The Complainants aver that the actions of the para-military police (the Camerounese police is militarized) drew serious condemnation from the public, including the diplomatic corps, local and international human rights organizations, University of Pretoria Centre for Human Rights, civil society, and the international community. After weeks trying unsuccessfully to defend the actions of the para-military police, the government set up a Committee to meet with the Lawyers. After a number of meetings, the Lawyers noted that the government was not interested in genuine negotiation but was rather intimidating and threatening the representatives of the Lawyers to these meetings and carrying out repressive actions through its police and military. 30. The Complainants submit that other Southern Camerogns professional groups, including Anglophone Teachers also joined the protest, requestlng for better conditions of service, and for the promotion of a purely Anglo-Saxon system of education. This time the government responded by moving in her military forces (established essentially for internal repression), particularly her gend?rmerie: aBd her rapid intervention brigade known by the French acronym B.I.R. (Bl'~gacte d' Int~rventionRapide) which violently targets the strikers using live bullets agairl's~unarmed civilians. 31. The Complainants allege that there were reported cases of killings, of systematic torture, of persons disappeared and of serious injuries. A Wave of massive abductions followed, the abductees being carted to Yaounde in former French Cameroun for trial in a military tribunal in a language and under a legal system they do not understand. Images and videos circulating on social media ~h.0wed gruesome killing~, particularly in Bamenda and Kumba. They sho)'Yc,e.d, BIR soldiers torturing protesters seized from the streets and from houses. They shoW~d security forces hovering over female students lying in the mud and of officers beating students in their dormitories. They showed terror-stricken truck-loads of persons, bare skinned or thinly dressed, crouching in military and police trucks with armed soldiers k~tping an eye on-them and'Being moved to Yaounde. 32. The Complainants' also allege that in recent weeks, dozens of protesters have been arrested and moved to Yaounde (New York Times, February 10, 2017). The Complainants add that the 36 year-old regirl:te,of'President Biya has not as much as acknowledged these gross and reliably attested human rights violations committed by his military, let alone apologized and put a stop to them, but has instead opted for an unconvincing general denial of their existence while incongruously declaring in a speech on 10 February 2017 that the crackdown shall continue. In this regard, the Complainants submit that they shall present some of the gruesome images and videos depicting the gross human rights violations in due course. II II 33. The Complainants submit that the government of the Republic of Cameroun engaged both the lawyers and teachers in apparent negotiations, setting up an ad hoc S;",on;unittee seemingly to deal with various issues. During the 'negotiations', the la ·~~ers included federation on the agenda as part of the demands they had rna ,,~<th~lA~m<Yto the authorities. They pointed out that their grievances could only/be st res lved. protected and safeguarded under a federal system of government, af-the erff 'I,ea,st.The government's response and official position was, and has remained'jthaf fed~raHsm is a political matter on which it was not prepared to discuss, and that talkce.Qr~,dE!'r~ti~'was '\ 6 ~ J'/o,y ,q~HIl-i\\' ,'; ~/lO --~- ~IMEETPt ... \,\