Senegal, Thiaroye
Senegal‑France: ‘Thiaroye massacre represents 80 years of government lies’
On 1 December 1944, more than 400 ‘tirailleurs’ (Senegalese riflemen) were killed by French colonial troops. Although Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged their deaths as a ‘massacre’, the battle of memory between France and Senegal is far from over.
THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP) — Biram Senghor regularly goes to pay his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital Dakar, bowing in front of a ...
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Senegal seeks answers 80 years after French colonial massacre of soldiersCommemoration prompts renewed calls for investigation into the killing of African soldiers by the French army in 1944.
The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in ...
African soldiers who fought for France during World War Two were gunned down by French troops for demanding fair treatment ...
The Thiaroye massacre remains a contentious historical episode as Senegal marks its 80th anniversary. In 1944, West African soldiers, part of the French colonial army, were killed by French troops ...
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