EVENT INFORMATION

28
Februari
1948

Colonial police shoot marching African veterans in Accra

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📅 28 Februari 1948 📍 Ghana

African veterans marched toward Christiansborg Castle to present demands over promised benefits and pay. Police killed three veterans, and wider unrest followed. The protest confronted unequal treatment inside an empire that had relied on African military service. The shootings exposed the coercion sustaining colonial authority when those who served it asserted claims to justice.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Sergeant Adjetey

Corporal Attipoe

Private Odartey Lamptey

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Gold Coast ex-servicemen