Caledonian Union, the largest of the independence organisalous Socialist Liberation which was formed in September 1984. On the morning of 12 January this year he, together with Marcel Nonarro, was assassinated by forces at the end of a large-scale military operation tally killed orders wound.
that the were in cold blood b National GrouD In close were on al ine time. The was The for this perialists in Thio, following Kanak The action conducted is your exwe could We preterred to conduct an forces. was general secretary of the the Kanak Front (FLNKS), a coalition French colonialist November, the scale to off violent the right-wing settler population.
French portrayed him, colonial Viewpoint. took on December do a suita Caledoniar tional Party.
Moreover, this region there was a crucial question to be settled, particular since like the other trom several places in the region settle the problem Thio, to ensure that the Kanaks, who are the majority in the local population, had control of the town in their hands.
What was ; the attitude of the FLNKS towards the volulalol the Thio when the town was occupied?
We asked for a meeting with the Europeans in the town to explain to tem the meaning of our action.
thev WeEt afraid, only about a dozen of them came to our meeting.
We made it clear that we had one specific aim for this town — 1o make Elio Machoro sure that the town was run by people who wanted to work for the benefit of everyone not to gain their : own persona eus. as was lnc case of the mayor, Roger Galliot.
Galliot was the who obstructed discussion among people. Everyone knew that he belonged to He banded together a half-dozen 'super-hards' We gave a list of their to the non-Kanak Halle inhabitants of Thio We also explained to them that their tranquility depended their the tions they maintained with the Kanaks We also asked the gendarmes Thio not to come out or their racks, promising them that AS regards the negotia the representative of the French overheat Edgard Pisani, you may be offered a determine the future of the territory with the right to vote accorded to the Euro peans and immigrants who have been here for example for more than six or more than ten years. What do you think about that?
Such a proposition by the French government would be a bad one ten years and why not the vicms or astory as we nave described the winose fathers mothers were born in Caledonia? And, i take it further, why not the ¡ Kanaks alone!
In fact, the ment's problem is that it does not want to take a position. It does not want to adopt our pomt or view so as not to be accused of letting the FLNKS drag it around by the nose But, the French government should decide either to stick by the French constitution or to carry out a decolonisation policy favourable people.
We have always demanded a reform of the electoral register to ensure habitants of the territory who decide on its future.
This request has been rejected by the National Assembly (in Paris) as unconstitutional.
present, we fighting for selfdeterminatior of the Kanak people alone, we have legal grounds for this.
Article of the French constitution recognises the special caracte of the Kanak people by granting them a special status In order to take up the discussion with Pisani, we made a lot of concessions, such as releasing the subprefect removing the road blocks.
In return for this, they are still killing us, as in Hienghene In the inCOCAL red, the Kanaks have never been the ones to start it.
Everytime they have fired, the Kanaks have done defend themselves. In Thio we took over the town without firing a single shot at a European.
The Socialist government has been car OU! right wing policy here because the right is helping the government the territory under the domination o The government does not want to let New Caledonia go because of the strategic holds Dustil ecause of its riche Gc ully vass U1 Du port for such a position here is the colonialist right. mains on the agenda, it has decondon Slallcu.
Kanaks, the colonial situa tion has not changed.
THERE IS A widely held belief that some sort of arms negotiations are going to begin in Geneva on 12 March. Except in the most superficial sense, this is simply false. There will be Russian and American diplomats talking about all kinds of weapons, but there won't be any negotiations about any thing that really matters, such as interncontinental ballistic missiles space weapons, for the simple reason that the two sides further apart than ever before on such issues.
In case anyone had any doubts about this, Reagan in his usual genial way has dispelled them. He declared last week that he thought it unlikely that a deal would be agreed within the next four years - in other words it may happen only over his dead body, under a president. And a few days earlier, in his inauguration address he explained why no deal will be achieved: he devoted the core of his address, which is supposed to outline a president's main aims, to a lyrical and uplifting song of praise for his Star Wars project.
Now the whole purpose of Geneva is supposed to be negotiating away Star Wars and without an agreement to end the plan there is no possibility of a deal to reduce or control intercontinental missiles. Star Wars is supposed to shoot down enemy missiles before they reach their targets, combatting such a system requires the other side to maximise its missile arsenal, thus ensuring adequate penetration of the Star Wars screen. Thus Star Wars and intercontinental missies cannol oc ticalca separalely, but must be tackled as a whole. @12/90/84, 144PHUNS2LATA INQUIRER 175 NASHINGION POST WACHERS GROUP. Schultz Socialist Action 8 February 1985 support for something concrete -continued work on the Star Wars progood guys and bad guys is similarly an exercise in self-deception. Thus reviews in the mass media here of Talbot's Deadly Gambits fall into Richard Burt as the good guy, while Richard "Perpe as Cot Was DulL lUl rci taking the hard line for deployment, whatever nuances of disagreemene they may have about Reagan's policy, is prepared to be cast in the role of champion of West European security interests. Haig used to play the role of Western Europe's champion and fo that very reason he lost his job. So il such champions don't exist, they have to be invented. And the doubters here must be served up with idiotic claims by such US pawns as Woodrow Wyatt The Times and Sir A Burnett on ITV that far from Britain being impo. tent to influence the US, it virtually dominates the Americans through the have been floated on the right, here. Western European Union, if not as an foreseeable future — then at least as something that could make sections of public opinion here believe it was some sort of force because at least it This has so far turned out to be pure