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  • side by side, the coffins of seven Children shot dead in their school in the Cameroonian city of Cumba.

  • It's almost two weeks since the attack on October the 24th, and still the grieving families have no idea who did it.

  • One of those who died was Remus economy.

  • Before the funeral, with a photo of her daughter at her side, her mother, Manya Tita, spoke of her painful loss.

  • My daughter never committed any crime.

  • The already she did was going to school for a better future aunt to build a better to be a better lady in in her community.

  • Um, my heart bleeds a lot because her death was so tragic.

  • She went through a lot off pain.

  • Last weekend, a week after the killings, thousands of women took to the streets to demand justice.

  • This is a region where separatists insurgents operate.

  • At the heart of tensions is President Paul Beers, French speaking government and its perceived marginalization of the English speaking minority.

  • Anglophones secessionists have imposed curfews in closed schools as part of their protest against the president's rule in the two weeks between the Cumbre attack and the funeral of those killed 11 teachers were kidnapped from another town during a raid in Combo.

  • They were later freed on further south.

  • Another school was set a light by unknown assailants, though there were no casualties.

  • More than 3000 people have died over the last three years in the conflict between the government and the Anglophone separatists, who want to break away from the majority French speaking state.

side by side, the coffins of seven Children shot dead in their school in the Cameroonian city of Cumba.

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