{"id":19387,"date":"2025-08-14T00:09:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/?p=19387"},"modified":"2025-08-14T00:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:09:30","slug":"france-macron-reconnait-enfin-la-guerre-coloniale-au-cameroun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/?p=19387","title":{"rendered":"France \u2013 Macron reconna\u00eet enfin la guerre coloniale au Cameroun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Une reconnaissance attendue depuis des d\u00e9cennies<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le 12 ao\u00fbt 2025, le pr\u00e9sident fran\u00e7ais&nbsp;Emmanuel Macron&nbsp;a officiellement reconnu, lors d\u2019un discours \u00e0 Yaound\u00e9, la responsabilit\u00e9 de la France dans&nbsp;la guerre coloniale men\u00e9e au Cameroun dans les ann\u00e9es 1950 et 1960, au moment de la lutte pour l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance.<br>Cette d\u00e9claration, jug\u00e9e historique, met fin \u00e0&nbsp;plus de 60 ans de d\u00e9ni officiel&nbsp;autour d\u2019un \u00e9pisode marqu\u00e9 par des exactions, des villages br\u00fbl\u00e9s, des arrestations massives et l\u2019\u00e9limination de figures nationalistes.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Un pass\u00e9 sombre : la guerre contre l\u2019UPC<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Entre 1955 et 1971, le Cameroun a \u00e9t\u00e9 le th\u00e9\u00e2tre d\u2019une guerre insurrectionnelle opposant l\u2019Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC)&nbsp;aux forces coloniales fran\u00e7aises et, plus tard, \u00e0 l\u2019arm\u00e9e camerounaise nouvellement ind\u00e9pendante mais soutenue par Paris. De nombreuses archives montrent que&nbsp;des milliers de civils ont perdu la vie&nbsp;lors d\u2019op\u00e9rations de r\u00e9pression men\u00e9es dans les r\u00e9gions Bassa et Bamil\u00e9k\u00e9.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/africanova.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/field_media_image-1388857-Armee_20fran_C3_A7aise_20BIS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19390\" style=\"width:780px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africanova.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/field_media_image-1388857-Armee_20fran_C3_A7aise_20BIS.jpg 650w, https:\/\/africanova.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/field_media_image-1388857-Armee_20fran_C3_A7aise_20BIS-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/africanova.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/field_media_image-1388857-Armee_20fran_C3_A7aise_20BIS-585x433.jpg 585w, https:\/\/africanova.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/field_media_image-1388857-Armee_20fran_C3_A7aise_20BIS-600x444.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">D\u00e9marche m\u00e9morielle et enjeux diplomatiques<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En reconnaissant cette guerre, Macron a annonc\u00e9 :<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>La d\u00e9classification d\u2019archives\u00a0pour permettre aux historiens et familles de victimes d\u2019acc\u00e9der \u00e0 la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 ;<\/li>\n\n<li>Une coop\u00e9ration culturelle renforc\u00e9e\u00a0autour de projets m\u00e9moriels au Cameroun ;<\/li>\n\n<li>Un dialogue bilat\u00e9ral r\u00e9nov\u00e9\u00a0pour apaiser les tensions h\u00e9rit\u00e9es de l\u2019histoire coloniale.<\/li><\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cette reconnaissance vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer les relations franco-camerounaises, essentielles dans un contexte o\u00f9 la Chine et d\u2019autres acteurs \u00e9conomiques renforcent leur influence en Afrique centrale. Elle intervient \u00e9galement alors que la France cherche \u00e0 repositionner sa diplomatie africaine apr\u00e8s le retrait militaire du Sahel.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">R\u00e9ception partag\u00e9e au Cameroun<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Si certains saluent un geste courageux, d\u2019autres estiment que la reconnaissance ne suffit pas sans&nbsp;excuses officielles&nbsp;ni&nbsp;r\u00e9parations concr\u00e8tes. Des associations de victimes r\u00e9clament aussi&nbsp;une aide au d\u00e9veloppement cibl\u00e9e&nbsp;pour les r\u00e9gions les plus touch\u00e9es par cette guerre oubli\u00e9e.<\/p><div class=\"gsp_post_data\" data-post_type=\"post\" data-cat=\"articles-populaires,culture\" data-modified=\"120\" data-title=\"France \u2013 Macron reconna\u00eet enfin la guerre coloniale au Cameroun\" data-home=\"https:\/\/africanova.info\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Une reconnaissance attendue depuis des d\u00e9cennies Le 12 ao\u00fbt 2025, le pr\u00e9sident fran\u00e7ais&nbsp;Emmanuel Macron&nbsp;a officiellement reconnu, lors d\u2019un discours \u00e0 Yaound\u00e9, la responsabilit\u00e9 de la France dans&nbsp;la guerre coloniale men\u00e9e&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-populaires","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/000_36E924B-Grande.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19391,"href":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387\/revisions\/19391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanova.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}