L'Armée, la haute function publique et le massacre de Thiaroye en 1944 au Sénégal
Bureaucratie impériale et petits meurtres entre amis
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Abstract
This article focuses on the Thiaroye massacre on 1 December 1944. Senegalese tirailleurs returning from Europe were killed by their officers simply for claiming the money they were owed. In this article I do not focus on the course of events, nor even on their political consequences, but rather on the way the events were explained by French authorities just after the tragedy. I take as my subject the biographies of several figures from the French state who were involved in the narration of these events. I try to see how these men were socialised in similar spaces. I am more specifically interested in the methods used by these administrations to write about the massacre. This article helps to better understand the French imperial state and the violence in the colonies and the link between military violence and political violence
Contributor Notes
Martin Mourre est docteur en histoire (EHESS) et en anthropologie (Université de Montréal) et chercheur associé à l'Institut des mondes africains (IMAf). Son travail de thèse s'intéressait au massacre de Thiaroye en 1944 au Sénégal et à sa mémoire dans la société sénégalaise jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Il a été publié sous le titre, Thiaroye 1944. Histoire et mémoire d'un massacre colonial (2017). Il réalise actuellement une histoire culturelle des armées ouest-africaines au vingtième siècle afin de mieux comprendre le lien entre état colonial et dynamiques postcoloniales. Email : martinmourre@hotmail.com