Massacre of School Children in Kumba : Women Decry Action, Offer Prayers

Following the killing of school children at the Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy complex in Kumba on October 24, 2020, women, government officials converged at the Yaounde City town hall and offered prayers of peace for the nation while denouncing the horrific and unbearable act of violence. On the call of the Minister of Women’s Empowerment and the Family, Marie Thérèse Abena Ondoa, the objective was to show sympathy with the affected families and call for an end to barbarism. 
In her declaration, Minister Abena Ondoa said the hideous attack which led to bloodshed and tears is a gross violation of human rights which need to be condemned today for tomorrow might be too late and other children may suffer same fate if silence is maintained. “Where did these children go wrong, what crime did they comment? These children were in the quest for learning, for knowledge, for education. These innocent children were simply trying to exercise their right to education which is enshrined in various national and international legal instruments ratified by our country,” partly reads the declaration. She said it is now obvious that some rebels who are disguised as the so-called defenders of the course of the populations in the North West and South West Regions are totally indifferent to the hand of peace extended by the President of the Republic on February 10, 2020 in his address to the Cameroonian youth.
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