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French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged the violence committed by his country’s forces in Cameroon during and after the struggle for independence of the Central African nation.
It followed a joint report by Cameroon and French historians examining the suppression of France’s independence movement from 1945 to 1971.
In a letter to Cameroon Paul Paul Breet, Macron said, Macron said the report became clear that “war was held in Cameroon, during which the colonial authorities and the French army exercise repressive violence from several species in certain regions of the country.”
“It is up to me today to take on the role and responsibility of France in these events,” he said.
However, Macron failed to offer a clear excuse for the atrocities committed by French troops in his former colony, which gained independence in 1960.
The French leader quoted four independence icons that were killed during military operations led by French forces, including Ruben Mind Niobe, leading the Fire Mark of the Anti -Colonalist Party UPC.
France has scored hundreds of thousands of Cameroons into the internship camps and supported brutal militias to cancel the struggle for independence, AFP agency said in the report.
Tens of thousands of people were killed between 1956 and 1961, according to a report of historians.
The decision to investigate and publish the findings of France’s role in the fight for Cameroon’s independence was taken in 2022 during Macron’s visit to Yaude.
He followed the country’s pressure on France to recognize his atrocities in his former colony and pay reparations.
Macron also expressed his desire to work with Cameroon to promote more studies on the subject, while emphasizing the need for both countries to provide discoveries available to universities and scientific bodies.
The BBC has contacted Cameroon’s government to comment on the French president’s recognition.
While Macron is not involved in reparation calls, he is probably a key conversation in Cameroon forward.
At Macron, France tried to face his brutal colonial past.
Last year, he acknowledged for the first time that her soldiers had committed a “slaughter” in Senegal, in which the West African troops were killed in 1944.
Macron awarded the role of France in the Rwanda genocide, which killed about 800,000 ethnic tuts and a moderate Hutus and sought forgiveness.
In 2021, he said that France had not taken into account the warnings of an upcoming slaughter and had a very long “appreciated silence in the exploration of truth”.
