Members of Cameroon's Rapid Intervention Unit caught on hidden camera torturing Soa University students following banal incident during a football match on campus. Full video of 50-minute torture was seized by local authorities. This is the only surviving video of the incident.
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DOUALA, 29 August 2008 (IRIN) - In 2001 the Cameroonian government created a special rapid intervention battalion (BIR) to quell hostage-taking and looting by criminal gangs operating on its eastern and northern borders, but this force is now straying from its original mission, causing anger among human rights groups...
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This is one of the reasons why the most productive and educated people are seeking opportunities outside. There are those who try to survive by singing praises to the criminals who own this BIR gang for now.
Posted by: Facter | Monday, 28 June 2010 at 12:32 PM
France 24 has two higher quality videos of the same incident. Check it out at: http://observers.france24.com/fr/content/20100625-bir-terrorise-etudiants-campus-cameroun
Posted by: The Observer | Monday, 28 June 2010 at 02:13 PM