Cmr'nians in Paris, Brussels commemorate 2008 hunger strike

On the same day thousands of Cameroonians thronged the streets of Yaoundé to support the Cameroonian army engaged at the front against Boko Haram in the Extreme North of the country, those in the Diaspora organized a march on the forecourt of freedoms and rights of man in Trocadero, Paris.

On February 28, 2015, several Cameroonian Paris and Brussels gathered at the forecourt of freedoms and human rights at Trocadero in Paris for a march in memory of the victims of the February 2008 riots in Cameroon. The choice of this date was not accidental, according to organizers.

It was in a bid to avoid this event that a march was organized in Yaoundé by the collective 'United for Cameroon' in support of the Cameroonian army engaged in the front against the Boko Haram in order to forget the serious events of February 2008. The organizers of the Paris march considered it a big deception for the Cameroonian people.

They perceived this initiative from a group of Cameroonian journalists as a maneuver of positioning and support to the President of the Republic, Paul Biya and not as an action of support for the army, which continues to lose men in the front.