The Rapid Intervention Battalion (Bataillon d'Intervention Rapide, or BIR) is an elite military force[1] and an army combat unit of the Cameroonian Armed Forces.[2]
The unit is supported by the United States, reports directly to the president of Cameroon, and has played a large part in the Cameroonian and regional war against Boko Haram. The unit has also been accused of torturing and killing detainees at a number of its bases in northern Cameroon and in Nigeria.