Emmanuel Macron recognizes the French colonial “repression” in the Cameroon independence struggle

French President Emmanuel Macron admitted the violence committed by his country’s forces in Cameroon during and after the struggle of the state in central Africa for independence.

A joint report was followed by Cameroon and French historians examining France’s repression of independence movements from 1945 to 1971.

In a letter to Cameroon President Paul Bia published publicly on Tuesday, Macron said that the report explained, “A war occurred in Cameroon, where the colonial authorities and the French army practiced repressive violence of several types in certain areas of the country.”

“It is up to me today to take over the role and responsibility of France in these events,” he said.

However, Macron did not make a clear apology for the atrocities committed by the French forces in their former colony, which gained independence in 1960.

The French leader was martyred with four independence icons that were killed during the military operations led by the French forces, including Robin Umm Nubaoub, the heat leader of the UPC anti -colonial party.

France pushed hundreds of thousands of Cameroon to the detention camps and supported the brutal militias to cancel the independence conflict, and the Agence France -Presse news agency quoted the report as saying.

The historian report said that tens of thousands of people were killed between 1956 and 1961.

The investigation decision was taken and the results related to the role of France in the independence struggle in Cameroon in 2022, during Macron’s visit to UNIDE.

She followed pressure from inside the country to France to recognize its atrocities in its previous colony and pay compensation.

Macron also expressed his willingness to work with Cameroon to enhance more research on this topic, while highlighting the need for both countries to provide results for universities and scientific bodies.

BBC has reached the Cameroon government to comment on the acceptance of the French President.

Although Macron did not address calls for compensation, it is likely to be a major modern point in Cameroon to move forward.

Under Macron, France tried to face its brutal colonial past.

Last year, it admitted for the first time that its soldiers had carried out a “massacre” in Senegal in which West African forces were killed in 1944.

Macron previously recognized the role of France in the Rwandan genocide, as about 800,000 of the moderate ethnic tuts and hotos died, and they sought forgiveness.

In 2021, he said that France did not respond warnings of the imminent massacre and had “a very long value to examine the truth.”