There is a young man in his twenties who murdered his own mother, here in the Damas district in Yaoundé. Enough to revive the problem of familicides here in Cameroon…
Matricides
There is a young boy comingt to kill his own mother! This happened on Sunday in the Damascus district of Yaoundé.and yet the man is only around twenty years old…
Matricides in Cameroon are not daily occurrences but they are becoming more and more recurrent. Sometimes it is young girls who murder their parents over matters of underwear or jealousy, or quite simply over minor financial disputes.
What is more shocking is often the modus operandi: poisonings, strangulations, assassinations using a bladed weapon or a firearm. And in the case of our criminal, he even went so far as to cut up his poor mother’s corpse using a hacksaw as if it were a carpenter’s job…
Patricides
As for patricides, we see them in all the villages! People who kill their father over a small matter of family land, and who precipitate his destination towards the afterlife. People who are in a hurry to immediately access their patrimonial inheritance, and yet their father resisted death when it was clearly hoped for in a hurry. Children who are quite simply psychopaths, and who sometimes take the life of their father after a simple little incident…
Patricide is much more common than matricide. Here people kill their fathers in silence, and they disguise it under the guise of old age, illness, witchcraft and what not! Children who voluntarily let their father die in a hospital due to lack of care, so as not to have to kill him directly and officially. Descendants who are so cynical that they mistreat their elderly at home like kindergarten children, and who push them to a nervous breakdown to the point of making them die “naturally” due to indescribable despair.
Didn’t you see what Paul Biya did to his predecessor who was called Ahmadou Ahidjo?
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Marricides
Marricides are women who kill their husbands. Yes, yes, you heard me correctly. Women who had married a man whom they brazenly claimed to love – and with whom they had many children -, but who decided one fine morning to execute him and make him disappear from the face of the Earth…
Marricides eh, they are quieter but they are more regular. Hey: haven’t you yet noticed that in the majority of couples who form in Cameroon, it is systematically always the men who die first? Eh ? Doesn’t that appeal to you?
Because most of our wives are silent killers, and they do it gently and delicately. They poison you every morning at breakfast, and yet they are the ones who will accompany you to your hospital bed and then to the morgue. They ruin your life with unnecessary stress that has no meaning, to rush you towards death, and they instantly make you age twenty years older than your true age.
And then, if you are cultured like my friend Pierre La Paix Ndamèyou have certainly heard of a woman called Marinette Dikoum, who had her husband brutally murdered on the night of January 29, 1983. Her act had become so widespread within Cameroonian society that we had even invented the verb “dikoumiser” for the many women who killed their husbands during the 1980s…
Sororicides
Personally, I know many sisters who hate each other. And when I say hate, I mean visceral hatred. Eternal hatred even, the kind of hatred that can push you to make your own little sister disappear as if nothing had happened…
Sororicides are also recurrent in Cameroon. They are fortunately not very brutal, but they are just as deadly. They hide in poisonings – always -, in the recruitment of murderers or even in assassinations with knives. Sometimes they are close friends, who are almost like sisters, who kill each other! Sometimes they are sisters-in-law who argue who knows what, to the point of promising a meeting with the god Hades. Sometimes it’s the endless stories of family heritage that come back to the table; with the underlying pecuniary interests, the stories of inheritance, the family home which was not for sale but which was nevertheless sold off to multiple buyers, etc…
Camerounicides
So there is a young man called Batek Yebel Emmanuel Landry, only around twenty years old, but who has just murdered his own mother. Enough to revive the problem of familicides here in Cameroon…
Fratricide! How many brothers fight among themselves, promise each other death, tear each other apart to the point of mutilating each other’s organs, all this for stories of sects and lodges which promise them that they will make a lot of money?
Uxoricides! How many husbands have already killed their wives for infidelity, or even more, how many lovers have already coldly ended the life of a sweetheart through a terrible crime of passion?
Femicides! Because, ultimately, the majority of family crimes are in reality crimes that are perpetrated against women.
Because when I see a young man who murders his own mother, when I see a young brother who decapitates his older sister, when I see a post-adolescent who dared to have the monstrousness to put his own grandmother to death, this whole spectacle sends shivers down my spine! And I often whisper to myself that, whatever the reasons that could be given to me to try to elucidate any infanticide, all these motives would receive no explanation or any understanding on my part.
Because familicide is, first and foremost, an unforgivable crime against all humanity.
Ecclesiastes DEUDJUII didn’t kill anyone
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