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  1. Camp de Thiaroye ([kɑ̃ də tjaʁ.wa]; also known as The Camp at Thiaroye) is a 1988 Senegalese war-drama film written and directed by Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow. The film entered the competition at the 45th Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the Grand Jury Prize.

  2. The Thiaroye massacre ( French: Massacre de Thiaroye; pronounced [tja.ʁwa]) was a massacre of French West African veterans of the 1940 Battle of France, by French forces on the morning of 1 December 1944.

  3. CAMP DE THIAROYE shows white oppression resuming as a regiment of West African Armed Forces soldiers return to an army post in Senegal from the European warfront where they faced death every day, only to now face indignities and racism from the French they helped liberate from fascism. Directed by : Ousmane SEMBENE, Thierno FATY SOW.

  4. May 7, 2018 · Camp de Thiaroye (1988) 4.4. ( 36) During World War II, Diatta is a Senegalese student serving as a sergeant as his country fights alongside the French, even though that same nation raided his village and killed much of his family years earlier.

  5. During World War II, Diatta (Ibrahima Sane) is a Senegalese student serving as a sergeant as his country fights alongside the French, even though that same nation raided...

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    • Ibrahima Sane
    • Ousmane Sembene, Thierno Faty Sow
    • History, Drama
  6. Co-directed and co-written by Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow, Camp de Thiaroye excavates a harrowing postwar tragedy from 1944: the Thiaroye Massacre, in which France murdered hundreds of West African veterans for demanding unpaid wages and protesting unfair treatment.

  7. During WWII, Senegalese infantrymen fought valiantly in the French army. Expecting repatriation to their villages, they are instead quartered in a prison-like transit camp. When the Senegalese stage an open rebellion, the colonial authorities dispatch tanks to raid the camp.