La répression du grand banditisme au Cameroun : entre pragmatisme et éthique

Résumé

During the 1990, Cameroon experienced the upsurge of urban and rural criminality. In the main cities of the southern part of the country such as Douala and Yaoundé, gangs operate even in day time, attack expatriates and foreign diplomats, rob public services, carry away important quantities of money. In the northern part where highway banditry is an old phenomenon, ambushes on roads increased, provoking innumerable losses in human lives and in material possessions. Due to this endemic insecurity, populations reacted through expeditious killings of robbers. The state adopted exceptional methods of struggle against bandits. But in an international context watching on the respect of human rights, the Cameroonian government's policy of restoring security raised an debate ethical opposing the partisans of expeditious justice to the partisans of the
bandit's right to a just and equitable judgment.