French PM abandons New Caledonia’s contentious voting reform
www.wsws.org
High-level talks on the Pacific colony’s future will not resolve the acute social crisis among alienated Kanak youth behind the ongoing unrest.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5956472

  • plinky [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    thonk seems like they are doing coin shenanigans

    The brutal police-military crackdown imposing “republican order” remains in place. Since the Paris Olympic games, the number of security personnel in the colony has escalated to some 7,000. Kanak villages such as Saint Louis, which are targeted as pockets of ongoing resistance, are subject to permanent roadblocks, body searches including children and police harassment.

    that number is nuts