February 2006
Region High N'Kam, around Bouffoussam
This second work speaks for first time in history, dramas of crime and places marked by a collective memory. It turns out they are attributable to the French army, with the government that goes behind it was between 1955 and 1970. The case seems huge but the calculations range from 200,000 to more than 400,000 dead. These are symbolic places of the history of France, when, around 1960, and the country's independence, the French army massacred or organized massacre of supporters of the UPC, for fear of surge in what it considered its territory, or socialism / communism and capable of challenging economic and strategic interests.
This work is working on the landscape, place and crime fiction of it.
It is divided into two sets, the place in its objectivity and documentary presentation, and place as the holder of a story, with a proposal for fiction.
The first round goes Bouffoussam at Bamendjou at Mjombé and natural sites (Lake Baleng, Falls metche) who has a history of that time saw executions, severed heads to intimidate the population, mass murder. This is for me to put myself in the position of inspector of police, forensic.
The crime scene
West Cameroon, a region of Bafoussam.
Photos of the maquis.
The second set refers to a fiction story. In this land of lush nature, I recall, with the foliage of trees, reflections in water or brush, the "flesh" of the landscape that I see many fertilized by the dead.
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