Biram Senghor regularly goes to pay his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital of Dakar, bowing in front of a different grave each time.
Biram Senghor, whose father was killed in 1944, holds a phone with a photo of his father, in Rufisque, Senegal , Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. Biram Senghor, whose father Mbap was killed in 1944, poses at the entrance to his brother Amhet’s house, in Rufisque, Senegal , Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. A student points at a poster marking the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre in Thiaroye, Senegal , Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024.
“I have been fighting to get answers for over 80 years,” said Biram Senghor. “ Macron cannot do what the other French presidents before him did; France has to repent.” “France must recognize that on that day, the confrontation between soldiers and riflemen who demanded their full legitimate wages be paid, triggered a chain of events that resulted in a massacre,” read Macron’s letter.
He points to the fact that no weapons were mentioned during the trial of the African riflemen accused of mutiny and the absence of any injuries among the French soldiers as evidence that no confrontation took place.The controversies and unknowns about the massacre are in part due to a lack of transparency by French authorities regarding the military reports and testimonies.
But Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who was elected in March in part on a promise of redefining Senegal’s relationship with the former colonizer, has vowed to regain control of the historical narrative on Thiaroye. “It will be talked about a lot on television, in the press and most importantly on social media,” he adds. “This will reach a younger audience who might know little about the events of Thiaroye.”
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