UN Human Rights Commission Report: Crime Experts Decry Subjective Position

The Cameroon National Council of Crime Experts (CNCCE) has castigated the content of the United Nations Human Rights Commission report published on October 14, 2020 relating to the legal proceedings regularly initiated against certain officials and supporters of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM) following their unauthorized demonstrations on September 22, 2020.   In a press conference on October 21, 2020, the President of CNCCE, Barrister Francis Steve Olinga said the report is not balanced, neither is it objective. The report, he notes, was expected to scientifically analysis the course of the situation and the sociologically conditions under which happenings unfolded. According to Francis Olinga, the UN report was drafted on information gotten from ill-intended persons. He further states the said report was produced in the form of minutes, consisting the five elements of minutes which include fast drafting, subordinate writing, personalized/customized writing, the mention of reason and writing in the institution’s own words.

On his part, Siméon Wachou, a crime expert of the Sworn Crime Experts Association, said the process followed by the experts appointed by the UN High Commission for Human Rights do not comply...