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, on the outskirts of Dakar, on December 1, 1944.
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In an interview with France 2, the Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced this Thursday, November 28, that Emmanuel Macron recognized in a letter he had sent him the massacre of African riflemen by French colonial forces in the Thiaroye military camp, on December 1, 1944.
In this letter, the French head of state writes that “ France must recognize that on that day, the confrontation between soldiers and riflemen who demanded that their entire legitimate pay be paid, triggered a chain of events which resulted in a massacre. »
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