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Port Moresby's Bomana Correctional Facility . . . nine inmates injured in an confrontation with jail guards. Image: RNZ/Johnny Blades
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Kanak pro-independence leader Christian Téin to remain in mainland French jail

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Solidarity action in Vanuatu in support of the indigenous Kanak Indigenous people of New Caledonia
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French Ambassador to the Pacific Véronique Roger-Lacan
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Bound for New Caledonia
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France sends armoured vehicles with machine gun capability to New Caledonia

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French repressive policies in New Caledonia have ‘betrayed’ Kanak hopes

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ULMWP president Benny Wenda
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A message to the news media among the charred Nouméa protest debris
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A Kanak protest barricade (in the distance behind the group of protesters) near Nouméa
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Some of the passengers on the special flight out of New Caledonia
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The shrine at Uvanu in northern New Caledonia where a ceremony was held yesterday to mark the anniversary of the execution of 10 Kanaks resisting French colonial rule in 1868
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