The Need to Remember:Â Lordre et la morale (Rebellion)

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    Abstract

    May 1988. The French territory of New Caledonia had been in the grip of civil war, euphemestically known as les evénéments, for over seven years. For decades, many white Europeans and indigenous Kanaks alike had been seeking greater autonomy and even independence, the latter a goal of the largely Kanak-based coalition, the Front de Libération Nationale Kanak et Socialiste (FLNKS). The French State itself had generated expectations of greater autonomy after World War II, when it created the French Community of overseas territories, but in New Caledonia, it had shown a pattern of granting elements of autonomy only to revoke them in successive statutes ever since twelve in all, from 1958 to May 1988. Frustrations had mounted, and from 1982 had degenerated into violent protests to which the French responded by increasingly firm administration and control.
    Original languageEnglish
    PagesOnline
    No.5
    Specialist publicationFiction and Film for French Historians
    Publication statusPublished - 2012

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