This photograph shows a Kanak flag waving next to a burning vehicle at an independantist r (AFP) — French forces smashed through about 60 roadblocks to clear the way from conflict-stricken New Caledonia’s capital to the airport but have still not reopened the route, a top government official said Sunday.
And after six nights of violence that has left six dead and hundreds injured, security forces will launch “harassment” raids to reclaim other parts of the Pacific territory, the French government representative in New Caledonia, Louis Le Franc, said in a televised address.
“Republican order will be re-established whatever the cost,” Le Franc, the central government’s high commissioner, warned radicals behind the violence.
The Pacific archipelago of 270,000 people has been convulsed by unrest since Monday, sparked by French plans to impose new voting rules that would give tens of thousands of non-indigenous residents voting rights.The territory has long suffered from ethnic […]
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