A decisive step has just been taken in the search for the truth about the massacre of Thiaroye, which took place on 1 December 1944, with the discovery of human skeletons bearing bullet wounds in the military cemetery of Thiaroye, on the outskirts of Dakar. This revelation comes from unprecedented archaeological excavations undertaken since early May by a Senegalese team mobilized to shed light on this tragic episode of colonial history. These excavations, carried out as part of an official process initiated by the State of Senegal, are aimed at establishing the facts with scientific rigor, in response to decades of shadow zones and denial. “Human skeletons have been discovered with bullets in the body, at the level of the chest for some. The bullets are of different calibers. For the moment, it is a small section of the cemetery that has been searched”, a source close to the dossier, quoted by Agence France-Presse, said. These discoveries reinforce the work of African and international historians who, for years, have challenged the official French version according to which 35 tirailleurs would have been killed that day.
Théâtre 1944: the evidence of the massacre has surfaced.
