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A transgender woman was assaulted and humiliated in mid-November in Yaoundé, Cameroon, as shown in videos posted on social networks. Members of the local LGBT community report that they suffer regular attacks and discrimination, and that transgender people are the most affected among them.
On November 19, a resident of the Cameroonian capital Yaoundé contacted the FRANCE 24 Observers team on WhatsApp about an attack on a transgender person in his city a few days earlier. Transgender people’s “gender identity or gender expression is different from typical expectations of the gender they were assigned at birth,” according to Amnesty International.
There are several videos of this attack, but our team has decided to publish only screenshots because of their disturbing nature. This article contains descriptions of those videos, which may be shocking for some readers.
One of the videos, which lasts just over two and a half minutes, was shot in a room with several men. At the beginning, one of the men, who is wearing a blue shirt, seems to block the woman on the floor.
We hear, “Wait and see what happens to you!” They then pull on her hair, her bra, and hit her repeatedly, while she screams. The men also force her to stand up, so they can take pictures of her naked, holding her hair back. Towards the end of the video, they yell at her to “spread [her] anus” and hit her on the buttocks.
Source : france24
