Chélak Massacre
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Chélak Massacre | |||||||
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Part of First Pan-Septentrion War and The Struggle | |||||||
Two marine bodies uncovered, 2015 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Husseinarti | Sieuxerr | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Jean Yves Jerome | Jean-Luc Mignard † | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
9th Battalion 10th Battalion | 22nd Colonial Marine Infantry Regiment | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
~2,000 militia 6 Hotchkiss machine guns 10 roadside bombs | ~1,500 marines | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
~50 total | Entire force killed |
The Chélak Massacre was an ambush and then massacre of an entire regiment of Sieuxerrian Colonial Marines. The marines were marching from Chélak to Bibré and were ambushed with a mixture of effective machine gun fire and roadside bombs. Later survivors were assaulted by waves of Husseinarti militia armed with machetes, all survivors of the attack were later killed. The massacre was described as a "disgusting war crime" by then-Emperor Napoléon V, with later Husseinartian President Théodore Boulet Sawadogo describing it as a "righteous showing of Husseinartian resolve".