Honourable member, your question just underscores the need for a negotiated solution to this crisis. Between the reunification in 1961 and 2016, no one in what was the former British Southern Cameroons was killed because of being an anglophone. Between 2016 and today, thousands of people have been killed. Villages have been burned. People are internally displaced. People are refugees. There is no way that this population will all of a sudden reconcile itself without a negotiated solution to the crisis.
Secondly, an opinion poll conducted in the anglophone communities about three years ago showed that around 68% of the population wanted to go their separate way. Two years later, in 2020, a second opinion poll was conducted. It showed that the number had risen to 86%. That means the more the government persists with a military solution to this crisis, the more it will antagonize the population to the point where reconciliation may become extremely difficult, if not impossible. It's in everyone's interest that the parties be brought to the table right now, to sort out their differences and come up with a position that will stop the killing and create an environment in which people can coexist and live side by side or together.