stepping up its armed attacks on the country. creasing reports of massacres carried the American backed forces north of Nicaragua are now coming •L or lre coslury.
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The Kanaks demanding independence press have attempted to portray unelr strugge as that of a band of savages on the • warpath to divert attention away from the cause of the revolt.
truth that French Caledonia has auncreo connula allacks the Kanaks, stealing wel aid practising rampant racism and assassindependence 10212 leader Pierre Declerq in September 1981.
Following the recent elections in November, which 80 per cent oI Ine Kanak ted, MaIaVe rural population rose up and oc cupied the "Caldoche white settler lands their roads, calling for the release of their leaders arrested during the election ing foe edecion nonl and the election null and voidhe Kanaks set up provisiona. government to ay the basis for ta future state of Kanaky' tree trom French colonial dominaTheir demands strongly onnosed by the white settler population when wisnes lo keep colltrol of what it has stolen -tne raw malerlals sucl di nickel, well as the island's tavourable position the Pacific for Following the two recent killings the Mittergovermmchl nounced a new state of emergency, sending 1000 more gendarmes and paramilitary police Caledonia 'reinforce law order' French forces now total 3,250.
The murder of the two El MachKanak leaders oro and Marcelo Monaro took place early Saturday near La Foa, 80 kilometres from the capital, after the FLNKS had occupied an abandoned farmhouse. Police Police stationed behind armoured cars used bull horns to demand that they surrender Thirty minutes another call to surrender was issued by the police and at that point Machoro and Manora, leading other militants, emerged the farmhouse.
Sharpshooters shot Machoro ana Manora in hold blachore entered Machoro entered through his breast near the shoulder.
, was a leader or ine kanaks. Me had been named security minister in the Kanak provisional government.
The High Commissior in New Caledonia claimed that the two enden welt accidently killed when orders had been given only to wound.
Provisional Jean Marie Tiibaou. president of the Kanak provisional poverne! disagreed, arguing that the murder was a barbarous act' that 'created a new situation in the struggle of the Kanak people for independence He made it clear that he would give no support to the French government's Pisani proposals which envisage soiution for the neo colonial colonv. with hrance giving up sovereignty but retaining responsibility for internal and external security.
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TWO LEADERS of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) were shot dead by policy