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In a letter addressed to the President of Senegal this Thursday, November 28, the French head of state Emmanuel Macron affirms that “France must recognize” that there was a “massacre” in the Thiaroye military camp, in the outskirts of Dakar on December 1, 1944, French media reported.
In an interview with France 2, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced this Thursday, November 28 that Emmanuel Macron recognized in a letter he had sent to him the “massacre” of African riflemen by French colonial forces in the military camp of Thiaroye, December 1, 1944, specifies RFI.
The word is used for the first time in an official letter, written a few days before the ceremonies planned in Senegal, during which Emmanuel Macron will be represented by his Minister of Foreign Affairs, indicates the same media.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye welcomed “a consistent step which should open the door to collaboration for the manifestation of the truth about this painful event”.
Emmanuel Macron also evokes the necessary work of historians. “It is important to establish as much as possible the causes and facts leading to this tragedy,” he wrote.
The French president also asked to be informed of the progress of the work of the committee set up in Senegal to restore the facts, RFI further notes.
As the Second World War drew to a close, hundreds of demobilized riflemen returned to Africa and took up their positions in the military camp at Thiaroye, in Senegal. On December 1, 1944, while they were demanding payment of their bonuses in this transit camp in the suburbs of Dakar, some of them were shot dead on the orders of French officers.
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