Between 1960 and 2015, Cameroon has projected herself at the level of the international scene as one of the best peace crusading Nations in Sub Saharan Africa. Unfortunately, the reverse became for the first time in the History of Cameroon, a historical fact from 2016. This was as a result of the long outstanding Anglophone-Cameroonian squabble in Cameroon termed “Non-Existential”, relegated and poorly managed by the government for the past five decades, which transformed by October 2017 into a “Deadly Armed Conflict” in the two English Speaking Regions of Cameroon,  between the Armed Separatists and  Republican Soldiers of the Central Administration. This article thus examined the verdicts of Human Rights and the unlawful acts orchestrated by the Armed Separatists, likewise the Republican Soldiers, during the course of the “Deathly Armed Conflict”, which were not in line with the norms of International Humanitarian Law. From critical analyses made, this work unveiled that; both the Armed Separatists and the Republican Soldiers, went against Jus Cogens norms governing Armed Conflicts. It also un-raveled that; the belligerents committed a lot of atrocities which were not in conformity with International Human Rights Norms during the course of the Armed Conflict. These defiant acts weren’t limited to extra-judicial killings, kidnappings, burning of villages, mass-arrest, illegal detentions, maiming, deprivation from education, violence against humanitarian workers and institutions. These atrocities committed by the parties in this “Asymmetric War” in the two English speaking Regions of Cameroon, resulted to the killing of over 4.000 persons and the displacement of over 100.000 civilians, both internally and internationally.

Keywords: Anglophone-Cameroonian, Armed Conflict, International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights,

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