Yaounde man accused of theft burned alive near presidential palace

A man suspected of theft was burned alive Thursday at district Madagascar in the nation’s capital. Yaoundé located some 10 km from the presidential palace. Horror, cruelty, barbarism, dehumanization ... words are not enough to describe the scene that was witnessed by hundreds of persons including some members of the Cameroon presidential guard force.

Mob justice is the order of the day in major cities of Cameroon including Southern Cameroons territory. The men and women who carried out the mob action reportedly pointed fingers to a failed system, a failing justice, "Every time you take them to the police, they are freed in the evening and come and taunt us, after bribing officials, who sometimes are outright accomplices and lend their arms, this should serve as a lesson, "says one on-looker.

Some security experts have expressed concern over the matter. They observed that the state is absent and the barbaric acts take place every day. “It embeds itself in our lives and tends to show that human life has no value”. Politicians, the clergy teachers, the whole Cameroonian society is guilty not to condemn such practices. This is the image that Cameroon sends to the world in 2015.