{"id":35121,"date":"2024-12-01T12:01:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T11:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2024\/12\/01\/thiaroye-massacre-honouring-senegals-slain-soldiers-80-years-on\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T12:01:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T11:01:52","slug":"thiaroye-massacre-honouring-senegals-slain-soldiers-80-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2024\/12\/01\/thiaroye-massacre-honouring-senegals-slain-soldiers-80-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiaroye massacre: Honouring Senegal&rsquo;s slain soldiers, 80 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On December 1, Senegal marks the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre. On that day in 1944, at least 35 Tirailleurs \u2013 members of a colonial infantry unit from Senegal who served in the French army\u00a0\u2013 were gunned down by French forces for demanding their pay after returning from World War II. For decades, the French army justified the killings, claiming the carnage was in response to a \u00ab\u00a0mutiny\u00a0\u00bb. It was only in 2012 that then-president Fran\u00e7ois Hollande referred to a \u00ab\u00a0bloody crackdown.\u00a0\u00bb On\u00a0November 28, President Emmanuel Macron finally acknowledged in a letter to Senegalese authorities that the horrific event that unfolded in Thiaroye in 1944 was indeed a massacre.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 1, Senegal marks the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre. On that day in 1944, at least 35 Tirailleurs \u2013 members of a colonial infantry unit from Senegal who served in the French army\u00a0\u2013 were gunned down by French forces for demanding their pay after returning from World War II. For decades, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-35121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}