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The commemoration takes place every year, on June 21, but this
Martyrs' Day, a public holiday and a day off, only dates from 2021. It commemorates all the dead of the struggle for independence, not only the victims of the Pya-Hodo massacre. In this locality of Kabiyè country a white marble stele was
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