; Whereas the United States Department of State has expressed serious concern over the Government’s use of force to restrict free expression, and the use of violence against individuals protesting the Government’s discriminatory policies in the country’s Anglophone regions; Whereas both the Government of Cameroon security forces and armed separatists have been documented targeting and brutally killing civilians, including women and children; Whereas the Government of Cameroon has repeatedly restricted freedoms of expression by shutting down the internet, harassing and detaining journalists, refusing licenses to independent media, and intensifying political attacks against the independent press; Whereas the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that since December 2017, the violence has resulted in the internal displacement of over 500,000 people across Cameroon; Whereas the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reports that more than 20,000 Cameroonian refugees have registered in Nigeria; Whereas emergency officials in Nigeria have reported that the number of refugees having fled from Cameroon since October 2017 exceeds 40,000; Whereas some of those who have fled to Nigeria have been deported to Cameroon, where they are at risk of unfair trial and torture; and Whereas the United States Department of State has expressly called on the Government of Cameroon to respect the rights, including the right to due process, of 47 Cameroonians forcibly returned from Nigerian custody to Cameroonian authorities, many of whom had reportedly submitted asylum claims in Nigeria: Now, therefore, be it