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Cameroon marchers seek safety for human rights activists

Hundreds marched through the capital of Cameroon on July 13 to protest violence against human rights defenders. It is the fourth such march, held annually on the anniversary of journalist and LGBT rights activist Eric Ohena Lembembe. <! – more ->

Marchers in Yaoundé, Cameroon, celebrate the Day of Remembrance of the Fight Against Violence Targeting Human Rights Defenders. (Photo courtesy of…

Cameroon: Homophobic attacks disguised as burglary

By Jean Marc Yao

Two burglaries and a threatening note that the burglars left behind, stating,  “Dirty little fag, be wise … .”

Those  happened in the space of one month to Jules Eloundou, an LGBT activist in Cameroon. The events were  made public in a press release from Humanity First Cameroon, the Yaoundé-based advocacy group  where Jules Eloundou is the president.

A press release from Humanity…

Exactly three years have passed since the death of talented gay Cameroonian journalist/activist Stephane Tchakam. To mark the day, the Erasing 76 Crimes blog today reprints the commemorative article about Tchakam  written by another talented gay Cameroonian journalist/activist, Eric Lembembe, who was murdered less than a year after Tchakam’s death.

Stephane Tchakam: Vibrant LGBT activist’s memory…

1000s who died in anti-gay attacks (May 2015 update)

LGBTI rights activist Eric Lembembe, who was murdered in Cameroon in July 2013. (Photo courtesy of Facebook)

The pace of hate-crime murders and executions of LGBTI people is overwhelming.

The numbers are so large that this blog’s list of reported homophobic hate-crime killings of LGBTI people could not be kept updated.

The list started shortly after the murder of this blog’s journalist/activist…

Cameroon: Portrait of the activist as a young man, and now

Dominique Menoga (Photo by Colin Stewart)

“I knew that I wasn’t insane or possessed, but my family didn’t understand,” says Dominique Menoga, describing the awkward day when he came out to his family.

Dominique Menoga, the former president of the LGBTI rights and anti-AIDS activist group CAMFAIDS (the Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS), recalls that the revelation made his family  tense and upset,…