Thiaroye Massacre

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Mural commemorating the Thiaroye Massacre in Dakar, Senegal.
Mural commemorating the Thiaroye Massacre in Dakar, Senegal.

The Thiaroye Massacre was the mutiny by and mass killing of French West African troops by French forces in November/December 1944. West African conscripts of the tirailleurs sénégalais units of the French army mutinied against poor conditions and revocation of pay at the Thiaroye camp, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal. The mutiny is seen as an indictment of the colonial system and constituted a watershed for the nationalist movement.

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  • (English) Myron Echenberg, "Tragedy at Thiaroye: The Senegalese Soldiers' Uprising of 1944 ", in Peter Gutkind, Robin Cohen and Jean Copans (eds), African Labor History, Beverly Hills, 1978, p. 109-128
  • (French) Boubacar Boris Diop, Thiaroye terre rouge, in Le Temps de Tamango, L'Harmattan, 1981
  • (French) « 1er décembre 1944 : le massacre du camp de Thiaroye » (article de Hervé Mbouguen, 23 octobre 2003)
  • (French)Camp de Thiaroye (extrait vidéo sur le site de la Médiathèque des Trois Mondes)
  • (French) Ousmane Sembène, Camp de Thiaroye, Feature Film, Color, 1988, 147min.