New Caledonia: France’s way or the Pacific way?
By Denise Fisher
France’s action in transporting eight indigenous New Caledonian detainees to metropolitan France can only fan the flames of ethnic and political difference...
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New Caledonia independence group demands Indigenous leader’s release from custody in mainland France
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