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French President Emmanuel Macron has recognized the violence committed by his country in Cameroon during and after the fight of the Central -African country for independence.
Following a joint report by Cameroon and French historians who studied France’s suppression from independence from 1945 to 1971.
In a letter to the President of Cameroon Paul Bio, which was released on Tuesday, Macron stated that the report had been told: “There was a war in Cameroon, during which the colonial authorities and the French army carried out repressive violence in several species in certain regions of the country.”
“Today I have to take on the role and responsibility of France in these events,” he said.
However, Macron did not express a clear forgiveness for the atrocities made by the French troops in the former colony that gained independence in 1960.
The French leader cited four independence icons that died during hostilities, led by French troops, including Ruben UM NEB, the leader of the fire party for the fight against the colonialist.
France pushed hundreds of thousands of Cameroons in the intestinal camp and supported the tough militias to abolish the fight for independence, AFP quotes the report.
Tens of thousands were killed from 1956 to 1961, the historians said.
The decision on the investigation and publication of the conclusions about the role of France in the fight for Cameroon’s independence was made in 2022 during the Macron’s visit to Yaunda.
Then there was pressure from the inside of the country to recognize its atrocities in the previous colony and pay the reparation.
Macron also expressed his readiness to work with Cameroon to promote further research on this issue, emphasizing the need for both countries to draw conclusions available universities and scientific authorities.
The BBC appealed to the Cameroon government to comment on the French President’s recognition.
While Macron did not resort to calls for reparations, it would probably be a key point of conversation in Cameroon that is coming forward.
At Macron, France tried to resist its cruel colonial past.
Last year, he recognized for the first time that his soldiers carried out a “massacre” in Senegal, in which Western African troops died in 1944.
Earlier, Macron recognized the role of France in the Rwanda genocide, in which about 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and the moderate house died and sought forgotten.
In 2021, he said that France did not listen to warnings about the coming massacre and too long “revered silence about the study of truth.”
