Has anyone every heard of Massacre de Thiaroye? This happened in France.
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@zhivi
I didn't. But now I've looked it up.....
Terrible!
@discoveringnature thanks for looking it up.
@zhivi Nope. I was born and raised in Switzerland. We talk in history lesson about roman empire, the pharaos, that Hitler was a very bad guy and little bit of the history of country where you live and thats all. No word about slavery and the desastrous consequences of colonialism in #Africa 
. Europe is very good in ignoring their own massacres.
@Nora I think a lot of place are good at trying to coverup the truth.
@zhivi
I had not. Echoes of the trials after the Port Chicago explosion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster
@AccordionBruce I’m from Chicago and don’t know about this. Smh. Thanks for sharing.
@zhivi
Rereading it I was confused that Port Chicago, California wasn’t in Illinois
I think I learned about it from an anti-recruitment graphic novel put out by Veterans for Peace years ago?
Kind of a, “These are the stories they don’t tell you when they want you to sign up”
Worth remembering
“15% of all African-American casualties during World War II.”
@AccordionBruce thank you. I had not read it yet. Guess I should.
@zhivi I've taken 12 years of French courses and I've never heard of it.
@LizzieSpeaks glad you heard of it.
@zhivi Thanks for posting about it. What an awful massacre. I guess the censorship really worked. People need to know about it.
@LizzieSpeaks it was.
@zhivi
Absolutely horrendous. I had no idea and have never read about this before 
Thank you for sharing
@anniemo71 the stuff we don’t know is crazy.
@zhivi
Exactly right. That's why we need to talk to each other 
@zhivi I watched a movie by Ousmane Sembene many many years ago called Camp de Thiaroye. I believe it’s about the massacre.
