The Thiaroye Massacre is a little-known history of how French forces opened fire on their fellow fighters who had helped them liberate France after it was captured by Nazi Germany. The massacre took place on 1st December 1944 in Senegal and it led to the death of over 300 French West African troops, though the French government has continued to underplay the number of dead to 30 to 35 veterans.

The regiment was known as the Tirailleurs Senegalais (Senegalese sharpshooters) whose troops were recruited from Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Chad, Benin, Gabon, Central African Republic, Togo, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. About 17,000 of these men died in the defence of France from Nazi occupation a lot of them were captured and suffered terribly at the hands of racist Germans. The former prisoners of war, who have been freed from Nazi camps, were taken to a holding facility in Thiaroye, which is located on the outskirts of Dakar Senegal's capital.

The crime of the soldiers was simply demanding equal pay with their fellow white soldiers and also demanding .....................................................

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