“A new colonial war that does not speak its name”

On 19 September, in the tribe of Saint-Louis, two young Kanak men aged 29 and 30 were shot dead by the GIGN (i.e., the Groupe d’intervention de la gendarmerie nationale). The FLNKS (in French, the Front de libération nationale kanak et socialiste) denounced ‘the barbaric and humiliating methods used by the police, who did not hesitate to summarily execute one of the young men’. Since April, thirteen people have lost their lives, most of them Kanak. Add to this the curfew, the military intervention, the arrest of a dozen leaders of the CCAT (Cellule de coordination des actions de terrain, Cell for the Coordination of Action on the Ground) and their transfer to prisons in France, 18,000 kilometres from home. « “Unfortunately, these methods from another era are the same as those transplanted to Algeria by the French army”, denounces the academic Antoine Leca, who sees it as “the first act of a new colonial war that does not speak its name, but is already revealing its face”. Isabelle Leblic, an anthropologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), points out that « there is colonial repression, a denial of the rights of indigenous peoples. We don’t want to [...]

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