E/CN.4/1994/31 page 20 74. Disturbances also took place in the South West Province in October 1992. According to reports, in Kumbha town, Meme division, gangs tolerated by the authorities captured a number of people and subjected them to torture. Among them were the following. 75. Ikaabo Christopher Ambaisah was captured on 13 October and taken to the District Office where he was allegedly severely beaten with iron rods and rough wooden canes before being released the same day. 76. Ruben Tarh was captured on 22 October and severely beaten with electric cables and boards with nails. His captors allegedly melted rubber in fire and let the hot fluid drop on his back. They also tied him head down and, in this position, beat him with cables before leaving him hanging for one hour. 77. Thomas Mbah was summoned on 22 October by two plainclothes and three uniformed soldiers to Chief Mukete’s compound for interrogation. Once there he was allegedly given 25 strokes of the cane, burnt with a hot iron rod on in several parts of the body and injured with a sword on the left shoulder. 78. In Bandja village, West Province, the following persons were arrested on 5 November 1992 by members of a paramilitary group: Emmanuel Kameni Mouaffa, Joseph Fankam, Raphel Lieji, Michel Tankeu, Blaise Tseussie, Bernard Ngaoum, Engolbert Wamboyi, Pierre Kameni and Michel Tankeu. They were all reportedly beaten with clubs, belts, batons and gun butts at the time of arrest. 79. There were also reports of a series of disturbances in Ndu, North West Province, in June 1992, in the course of which a number of citizens, including women and children, were severely beaten and subjected to sexual abuse, as in the case of Biena Mary Kimbi, publicity secretary of the Donga/Mantung South (Ndu) electoral district of the Social Democratic Front. She was arrested by six members of the police (gendarmes) on 6 June 1992 and taken to the Gendarmerie Brigade headquarters in Ndu, where she was reportedly stripped, beaten and sexually assaulted, then held for four days without food or water. On about 12 June she was transferred to the Gendarmerie Brigade headquarters in the nearby town of Nkambe, where she remained in incommunicado detention, denied all contact with family or lawyer. On 19 June she was taken to the Gendarmerie Company headquarters in Nkambe, where she and another woman detainee were reportedly whipped with belts, after which she was unable to walk. She was held in detention for 31 days. 80. The three cases mentioned below were also communicated to the Government. 81. Sévérin Tchounkeu, publisher of the French language weekly La nouvelle expression and Tsapi, a cartoonist for the Challenge Hebdo weekly were arrested by the police in Douala on 2 November 1992. The two were reportedly beaten at the time of arrest and Mr. Tchounkeu required hospital attention for multiple fractures. 82. Ange Tokam Guiadem, a student leader, was reportedly arrested on 5 May 1992 by approximately 12 gendarmes at Yaoundé University. They allegedly stripped and marched her across campus, punching and kicking her.