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New Movie Turns Spotlight on France’s Forgotten Colonial troops

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by Carolyne Rabut
January 5, 2023
Reading Time: 5 mins read
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Old soldier: Ndiogou Dieye, 103, who fought in France's colonial-era infantry, the tirailleurs | AFP

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“They made us join up to wage war,” said Ndiogou Dieye, 103, casting his memory back more than eight decades to when he and other young Senegalese donned uniforms to fight for distant France.

“We didn’t know where we were going.”

The wizened old soldier is one of the last survivors of France’s colonial-era African infantry — a force that fought in two world wars and colonial conflicts in North Africa and Indochina.

After years of neglect, the troops are the subject of a blockbuster movie, “Tirailleurs,” opening in France and Senegal this week, starring Omar Sy, best known internationally for the Netflix crime series “Lupin”.

Sy plays a Senegalese father who voluntarily enlists in the French army in World War I to keep an eye on his son, who has been forced into uniform. Both are pitched into the horrors of the Western Front.

The “tirailleurs” — loosely translatable as “skirmishers” -– were born in Senegal in 1857, to forge a corps of lightly armed, mobile troops who would harass the enemy ahead of an advancing main force. 

Dieye lives in his native town of Thies, surrounded by certificates and memorabilia from his years of service | AFP

After World War I broke out, France recruited across its West African colonies to transform the tirailleurs into a force designed to hammer the Germans on the Western Front. 

They took part in several key battles, notably holding the line at a crucial moment in Verdun in 1916, the most important battle in the four-year-long conflict.

Toll 

Some 30,000 of the 134,000 tirailleurs who fought in WWI were killed, according to the specialist French magazine Historia.

Survivors were often crippled or scarred by trauma, yet their tale was often relegated to footnotes, and their names never featured on local war memorials in France — the daily reminder to French people of the cost of the conflict.

High-sounding plans to provide hospitals and pensions were downgraded or sapped by bureaucracy, and tirailleurs sometimes suffered second-class treatment compared with their French counterparts.

In World War II, tens of thousands of tirailleurs fought in sub-Saharan and North Africa and took part in the 1944 landings in southern France. 

Dieye was recruited in May 1940, just before the fall of France — his regiment went on to serve with the Free French in central Africa and the Middle East | AFP

Dieye said he was recruited in May 1940 in his hometown of Thies, about seventy kilometers (45 miles) from Dakar, and joined the Seventh Regiment of tirailleurs.

After basic training near Dakar, his unit was shipped out to Madagascar but had to turn around because of a submarine threat.

It then headed to the French Congo and on to Gabon, liberating the capital Libreville from the collaborationist Vichy government “after a few shots”, he said.

The regiment was sent to the Middle East to prepare for operations in Europe, but by then, Berlin had fallen. 

Dieye returned to Senegal in 1945 as a sergeant, and in the post-colonial period joined the police, retiring in 1972 at the age of fifty-two.

Today, he lives in a house in Thies surrounded by photos and memorabilia from his years of service.

Anger 

Slow-moving but sharp-eyed, he is bitter towards France, accusing it of “dishonesty”.

In December 1944, French troops at a barracks near Dakar opened fire on mutinous tirailleurs demanding back pay for years spent in prisoner-of-war camps.

The official toll of 35 dead is disputed, and the common grave where the soldiers were buried has never been found. The episode remains murky and bitterly remembered in Senegal despite an attempt by former French president Francois Hollande to shed light for reconciliation.

Demba Sao, 86, fought as a tirailleur for eight years, including two years in Algeria, where he was wounded | AFP

“You send someone to war, he claims his money and you punish him” by killing him, said Dieye, a tone of disgust in his voice.

He reserves his greatest anger for France’s failure to pay his military pension, equivalent to 750 euros (dollars) annually, for the past two years.

“France hasn’t kept its promise,” he said.  “I depend on the Good Lord and my children to survive. I get nothing as a former tirailleur. Zilch from France.”

France’s Veterans’ Affairs Office told AFP that military pensioners who were incredibly old had to show documented proof from their national authorities that they were still alive.

Dieye’s pension payments were suspended in 2021 as he had failed to provide this document, it said. Last year, “in early 2022, he submitted proof, and his situation will therefore soon be put in order,” it said.

Historian Mamadou Kone said he believed only 10 or so tirailleurs from World War II were still alive in Senegal. The last tirailleur from World War I, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, died in 1998 at the age of 104.

At home, tirailleurs were long “ostracized, considered armed enforcers of French imperialism. Their image was stained,” said Kone.

Things changed in 2004, when then president Aboulaye Wade named December 1 as an annual day to commemorate the tirailleurs, enshrining their achievements “in two world wars which freed the world from Nazism and fascism,” he said.

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Carolyne Rabut

Carolyne is a National Correspondent for The Kenya Times. She focuses on the ongoing political climate and national life stories in Kenya and Africa. She can be reached at [email protected].

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