Camp de Thiaroye

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Camp de Thiaroye was a base of the French colonial troops in what was formerly French West Africa . It was on the Cap Vert Peninsula northeast of the city of Dakar in Senegal . The camp became famous through the Thiaroye massacre on December 1, 1944, which killed a controversial number of Senegalese shooters , the Tirailleurs sénégalais . They were supposed to be demobilized there after being returned from German captivity.

This camp was a later, after deduction of colonial troops urban planning conversion undergone and is now due to the progressive urbanization of Cap-Vert Peninsula as urban planning reserve area in the city district of Thiaroye Gare in Arrondissement de Thiaroye the metropolis Pikine .

The location of the camp can be recognized in the cityscape of Pikine by the fact that the area, as an approximately square area with a side length of around 900 meters, is excluded from the otherwise dense urban development. The corner to the north of the site is at Thiaroye train station (Thiaroye Gare) on the Dakar – Niger railway line , which passes just under two and a half kilometers north of the historic center of the fishing village of Thiaroye sur Mer .

The main access leads from a roundabout (rond point) at the southern corner diagonally to the north through the area. The current development includes the middle school (collège d'enseignement moyen - CEM) "Thiaroye 44", the Lycée de Thiaroye with over 2,800 students, the Center hospitalier national de Pikine , on seven hectares in the northwest of the camp a center for the traders, which were supposed to move from the railway tracks that ran past to the north, where they had operated their stalls, to this center commercial de Thiaroye , and last but not least, the military cemetery, declared a national cemetery in 2004, on which a memorial for the victims was erected in 2014 in the presence of Presidents Macky Sall and François Hollande from 1944 was unveiled.

The Senegalese writer, director and war veteran Ousmane Sembène made a film about the events of 1944 called Camp de Thiaroye .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ allafrica of July 20, 2012: Inauguration du CEM 'Thiaroye 44'
  2. ↑ Enquete + of May 4, 2017: Le lycée de Thiaroye obtient 2,000 ouvrages de la Fondation SONATEL
  3. ↑ Les structures (établissements) de santé publique (hôpital, center et poste de santé, dispensaire)
  4. ↑ Senego of December 28, 2017: Thiaroye dit non au 2e center commercial dans le camp
  5. ↑ jeuneafrique of August 30, 2017: Sénégal. Plus de soixante-dix ans après, le massacre de Thiaroye reste dans les mémoires

Coordinates: 14 ° 45 ′ 22 "  N , 17 ° 22 ′ 36"  W.