Schools at the heart of Cameroon’s separatist conflict

Schools are “weapons of war” in a separatist insurgency in Cameroon’s two Anglophone regions, but the massacre of eight young children in class last week brought a new level of horror. “The school is used as a weapon of war in this conflict,” Ilaria Allegrozzi, regional Central Africa researcher for Human Rights Watch (HRW), told AFP. “The separatists don’t want the children to be in the schools, institutions which they equate with central…