[comra] on Instagram: "Did you know that on this day in 1944 French forces massacred African soldiers who had just helped liberate France from Nazi rule? After returning to Senegal, these veterans were taken to the Thiaroye camp, where they demanded the wages France had promised and owed them for years of service and imprisonment in Europe. Instead of paying them, France surrounded the camp at dawn, deployed gendarmes and armored vehicles, and opened fire on unarmed men still wearing French meda

Soulofpalestine on Instagram: "France's colonial lies are being literally dug up in Senegal. African archaeologists have uncovered seven bodies at Dakar’s Thiaroye cemetery, hinting at a larger cover-up operation by French authorities. Excavations are still in the early stages. Each body pulls France’s official story of the 1944 Thiaroye massacre further apart. Thiaroye was the site of a revolt by West African riflemen over unpaid wages and unequal treatment after serving in World War II helping