Many things make colonial wars particularly brutal ... But in the case of the Dutch in Indonesia—as of the French in Algeria, who also practiced torture and murder on a huge scale—was there ...

The bold and unprecedented statements by French journalist Jean-Michel Abate have opened the debate in France about France’s ...

Rightward shift of the French political class and persistence of ‘colonial unconscious’ are contributing to mounting tensions ...

People in Africa were burdened by colonial perceptions of who they ... Senegalese soldiers continued to be in the French army after World War II. This stands in contrast with the British, who ...

The massacre at Thiaroye took place on 1 December, 1944, when French colonial troops opened fire on West African soldiers who had just returned from Europe, where they had been fighting for France.

A prominent French journalist on Sunday announced he was stepping down from his role as an expert analyst for broadcaster RTL ...

by the French colonial army. On the morning of December 1, 1944, soldiers of the Tirailleurs Senegalais, an army unit that fought in France’s war against Nazi Germany, had been protesting ...

A century ago, Germany, France and Britain claimed Cameroon at different times. The scars are seen in conflicts today.

The middle-class “left” groups, which had opposed imperialist bullying of small countries during the war in Vietnam, the US attacks on Cuba and Nicaragua, and the French colonial war in ...

Friends told him it was the burial site of Senegalese soldiers massacred by the French army during the Second World War, shot for demanding unpaid ... 1944, when French colonial troops opened fire on ...