Biram Senghor is the last surviving descendant of a group of Senegalese soldiers killed by French military in a massacre in ...

Senegal commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre. At the ceremony held at the military cemetery in Thiaroye on Sunday (December 1), President Diomaye Faye announced the ...

The Thiaroye military cemetery in Senegal has 35 graves representing West African soldiers that France said were killed by French Army soldiers in 1944. Historians said the actual death toll may ...

The only known descendant of a Senegalese rifleman killed by French forces in the 1944 Thiaroye massacre has filed a legal ...

THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal — Biram Senghor regularly pays his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital Dakar, ...

Thiaroye, SENEGAL (Reuters) -Senegal on Sunday commemorated the 80th anniversary of a massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War Two, and were gunned down by French troops ...

Of the 300 to 400 Thiaroye victims, Paris has acknowledged that six “died for France”. Four were Senegalese, one was Ivorian, and the sixth was from present-day Burkina Faso. Their status as “died for ...

The massacre at Thiaroye took place on 1 December, 1944, when French colonial troops opened fire on West African soldiers who had just returned from Europe, where they had been fighting for France.

On December 1, Senegal marks the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre. On that day in 1944, at least 35 Tirailleurs – members of a colonial infantry unit from Senegal who served in the ...

Senegal commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre. At the ceremony held at the military cemetery in Thiaroye on Sunday (December 1), President Diomaye Faye announced the ...

THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP) — Biram Senghor regularly pays his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital Dakar, bowing in front of a different ...