Fifteen rights groups on Thursday called on the United Nations to investigate possible “serious” human rights violations in the troubled English-speaking region of western Cameroon.

The signatories, including Civicus and the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa, accused the Cameroon government of “carrying out a systematic and ruthless military campaign” against people in the country’s English-speaking regions.

An “impartial, rigorous investigation is urgently needed,” they said in a letter to the UN and released at a news conference in Johannesburg.

*Source: AFP