On Dec. 1, 1944, likely hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were killed by the French ...
Commemoration prompts renewed calls for investigation into the killing of African soldiers by the French army in 1944.
Senegal marks the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre. On that day in 1944, at least 35 Tirailleurs – members of a ...
For half a century, the son of a Senegalese soldier massacred by the French army he had fought for during WWII has sought ...
France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army ...
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday said that France should close all its army bases in the country, ...
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 ...
On Dec. 1, 1944, likely hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were killed by the French army after demanding their unpaid wages. THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP ...