Tag: Ouvéa hostage crisis
Unfinished business over New Caledonian decolonisation – new challenges after ‘stolen’...
Brief reports have surfaced about the separate bilateral meetings of the Kanaky New Caledonia pro- and anti- independence representatives with French Prime Minister Élisabeth...
Betrayal of Kanaky decolonisation by Paris risks return to dark days
ANALYSIS: By David Robie
After three decades of frustratingly slow progress but with a measure of quiet optimism over the decolonisation process unfolding under the...
Assassination of Kanak leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou marked 30 years on
By RNZ Pacific
Commemorations have been held in New Caledonia over the weekend to mark the 30th anniversary of the assassination of the pro-independence leader...
Blood in the Pacific: 30 years on from the Ouvéa Island...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Max Uechtritz
On Saturday, 30 years ago in 1988, I smelled death for the first time – literally.
A sickening, almost suffocating, stench...
Macron visits Ouvéa on anniversary of defining 1988 hostage crisis
FLASHBACK: The controversial docudrama Rebellion, screened at the 2012 NZ International Film Festival by director Mathieu Kassovitz and featuring some Kanak relatives of the...