Cameroonian security forces have been raiding homes in the Anglophone south-west region, searching, they say, for terrorists.
But what they are collecting appear to be farm tools and household utensils, residents say.
Now residents of the rural community of Munyenge have been deprived of their machetes, axes, hammers and walking sticks. Hunters have also lost their guns. One told me:
How can they confiscate our farming tools. How do we clear our farms and prune our crops? Is there any home in this country without a knife?”
Security forces, meanwhile, suggest the youths of the village had become lawless, harassing people and imposing their own law on the land.
Dozens of residents have been arrested and taken to the regional capital, Buea.
Women and children are said to have fled into the bushes. Several people were wounded.
Authorities are cracking down on protests by the English-speaking minority against the mainly French-speaking government.
