The responsibility for Olympio’s murder remains unestablished because French archives stayed sealed.
Evidence
In six months, Sylvanus Olympio’s struggle for economic sovereignty had been wiped out. From the French point of view, everything returned to normal, in the sense of the ‘normalisation of relations between Paris and Lomé’. In 1967, Lieutenant Colonel Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrew President Grunitzky. He remained in power until his death in 2005 and was succeeded by one of his sons, Faure Gnassingbé. Fifty-five years later, the responsibility for the murder of Sylvanus Olympio remains unknown, since the French and American archives have never been opened. — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 170 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
In France the sack-loads of archives removed from the Gouvernement-Général in the last days of the war lie, sealed from the public gaze, in the repositories of the University of Aix-en-Provence; in Algiers, the official archives were only just beginning to be assembled in a splendid new centre in 1984. Yet, meanwhile, memories are fading and eye-witnesses dying, their recollections unrecorded. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 36 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: French and American archives on Olympio’s assassination remain unopened; Togo’s push for monetary autonomy was crushed when pro-French soldiers assassinated Olympio.; Responsibility for Olympio’s murder remains unknown because French and American archives stay closed. — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 170 (+1 more)
Related
- French and American archives on Olympio’s assassination remain unopened (similarity 0.95)
- Responsibility for Olympio’s murder remains unknown because French and American archives stay closed. (similarity 0.94)
- Togo’s push for monetary autonomy was crushed when pro-French soldiers assassinated Olympio. (similarity 0.90)
- French colonial war archives remained sealed while memories and witnesses faded. (similarity 0.85)
- French official archives still held Algeria war secrets long after the conflict (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Responsibility for Olympio’s murder remains unknown because French and American archives stay closed.
#corroborates(0.90) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 170 - French colonial war archives remained sealed while memories and witnesses faded.
#expands(0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 36