French president Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that France had led a war in Cameroon during the nation’s independence struggle in a epic made public on Tuesday.
Macron wrote to Cameroon president Paul Biya on 30 July to grab accountability for actions of repressive violence in opposition to insurgent movements in Cameroon.
He acknowledged this violence took area sooner than and after the nation’s independence in 1960.
That is the first time that France formally uses the observe “war” to declare its actions in Cameroon over that length of time.
The French president’s statement draws from the conclusions of a file made by historians, and presented to each and every countries in January.
The file came across that French troops “presumably killed tens of hundreds of Cameroonians” between 1945 and 1971.
Emmanuel Macron especially admitted to France’s killings of independentist leaders from the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon, including the assassinate of Ruben Um Nyobè in 1958.
The French president also acknowledged colonial forces’ perpetration of the Ekité bloodbath, during which they killed a minimal of dozens of oldsters on 31 December 1956.
During his presidency, Emmanuel Macron has undertaken a form of reckoning concerning France’s colonial previous, acknowledging the nation’s role within the 1944 Thiaroye bloodbath, within the 1994 Rwanda genocide and within the Algerian war of independence.
Extra sources • RFI
