This year, Senegal commemorated the events of December 1, 1944, at the Thiaroye military camp with unprecedented scale. Historians have long debated the death toll of the Thiaroye massacre.

This photograph shows a victim of the Thiaroye massacre, in which French soldiers in Senegal gunned down African soldiers who had fought on its side in World War II after they demanded fair pay ...

French photographer Yves Monteil was driving in Senegal when he passed a military cemetery in Thiaroye, in the suburbs of Dakar. Friends told him it was the burial site of Senegalese soldiers ...