On Dec. 1, 1944, likely hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were killed by the French ...
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the first time recognized the killing of West African ...
In an interview with Le Monde, the Senegalese president, an advocate of sovereigntist policy, discusses the 1944 Thiaroye massacre and the relationship he intends to forge with France, whose influence ...
Historians estimate hundreds of West African soldiers who fought for France were killed in 1944 by the French army after they ...
THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP) — Biram Senghor regularly ... World War II but were likely killed on Dec. 1, 1944, by the French army after demanding unpaid wages. In this cemetery, where they ...
Commemoration prompts renewed calls for an investigation into the killing of African soldiers by the French army in 1944.
Senegal has commemorated the 80th anniversary of a colonial-era massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War II and were shot by French soldiers in 1944 for demanding fair ...
Hundreds of West African soldiers who fought for France during World War II were likely killed by the French army on Dec. 1, 1944, after demanding unpaid wages. THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP ...