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SENEGALESE SKIRMISHERS: Honoured Veterans

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The Senegalese Tirailleurs received at the Palace @Image capture page Facebook President Macky Sall

Senegalese President Macky Sall received this Friday, April 28, 2023 at the Presidential Palace the nine Senegalese tirailleurs, who have decided to return permanently to Senegal. The Head of State expressed his gratitude to his heroes. He raised them to the dignity of Grand Officer in the National Order of Leo.

In receiving you upon your return, I wished to raise you in the name of the nation to the dignity of Grand Officer in the National Order of the Lion and the Great Cross. And to pay tribute to all your brothers in arms alive and dead,” said Senegalese President Macky Sall.

This ceremony, he says, is a “remembrance exercise in recognition of the immense sacrifices made by all our veterans in defence of freedom.”

It is also a reminder of the long series of injustice against sharpshooters on bomb crashes and in foreign landscapes. The Tirailleurs were in all the fighting, all the fronts and all trenches», indicated the Head of State.

We pay tribute to all veterans in Africa, Europe and every continent for the sacrifices they have made. But out of duty to remember, we cannot forget the injustices against our skirmishers. We cannot forget the uneven pensions of slow and blocked advances the placement under the orders of less-ranking metropolitan, the impossibility to command non-indigenous troops among other discriminations,” he added.

We cannot forget the horror of the extrajudicial executions at the Thiaroye 44 Camps. Unfortunately, this is also the story of the Tirailleurs,” stressed President Macky Sall.

“So, dear veterans, as we welcome you, today we celebrate a rightful injustice,” said the Head of State.

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The Senegalese Tirailleurs received at the Palace @Image capture page Facebook President Macky Sall

President Macky Sall paid tribute to Aïssata Seck, president of the Association for the Memory of Senegalese Riflemen for her fight against forgetting and for the duty to remember.

“Aïssata Seck, Regional Councillor for the Ile de France and President of the Association pour la Mémoire et l’histoire des tirailleurs sénégalais, for the tireless fight you continue to fight for the rights of our veterans.” “I remind you that it was thanks to your “decisive contribution that the tirailleurs were able to obtain French nationality.”

For all these reasons, he says, you “deserve our recognition and the distinction of Commander in the National Order of the Lion awarded to you.”

The Senegalese Tirailleurs received at the Palace @Image capture page Facebook President Macky Sall
The Senegalese Tirailleurs received at the Palace @Image capture page Facebook President Macky Sall
The Senegalese Tirailleurs received at the Palace @Image capture page Facebook President Macky Sall
       

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