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 ...

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

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

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, Senegal — Before the old man dies, he yearns to see his father’s bones. It’s the only way to clear his family’s name, he said, and prove a long-buried truth to the world: ...

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 ...

Massacre de Thiaroye : 70 ans après, les zones d’ombres demeurent - Stéphanie Trouillard - retrieved 31/08/16 A little-known massacre in Senegal - Nazanine Moshiri - retrieved 31/08/16 1er Décembre ...

Ousmane Sembene, the Senegalese novelist who is also one of the pioneer figures in the African cinema, has made his first movie since 1977 with ”The Camp at Thiaroye,” a devastating indictment ...

Synopsis. Writer/directors Ousmane Sembene and Thiermo Faty Sow based Camp de Thiaroye on their own experiences. During the French/Algerian war, a group of black soldiers fight on the side of France.

THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal — The fishing village has long sent its men to sea, but after foreign trawlers scraped the bottom clean, the men began coming back empty-handed. It has long sent its ...