Mijiyawa
Bakary, a Cameroon Regional Governor, on Wednesday, said the government
had released 84 children who had been held in custody for six months in
its Far North region.
He said the
children, aged between five and 15 years, had been rounded up along with
43 men during raids on Islamic schools, suspected of serving as
indoctrination and recruitment pools for Boko Haram.
The governor said 41 of the children had already rejoined their families.
The human rights group, Amnesty International, had mounted pressure on the authorities to release the children.
The Cameroonian army had frequently been accused of human rights violations in its fight against Boko Haram.
President Paul
Biya declared war on Boko Haram last May, after the group started
infiltrating into Cameroon from neighbouring Nigeria.
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