In a letter to the Cameroonian president, Emmanuel Macron thus endorses the conclusions of a report of historians “clearly emerge (…) that the colonial authorities and the French army exercised repressive violence of a multiple nature” before and after the independence of 1960.
French president Emmanuel Macron officially recognized that France had led “A war” in Cameroon against insurrectional movements before and after the independence of 1960, marked by “Repressive violence”in a letter to his Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya made public this Tuesday.
The president thus endorses the conclusions of a report of historians who had been given to him in January and which has “Clearly highlights that a war had taken place in Cameroon, during which the colonial authorities and the French army exercised repressive violence of a multiple nature”adding that “War continued beyond 1960 with the support of France to the actions carried out by the independent Cameroonian authorities”.
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