Word: flq
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Canadians expected the bombers to be violent French Canadian nationalists, the far out lunatic fringe of a movement agitating for a separate and independent French-speaking Quebec. And so they were. The shock came when Canada learned that the FLQ was also largely leftist-and that at least one of its leaders had direct ties to Fidel Castro's Cuba...
...Hero to Emulate. He is Belgian-born Georges Schoeters, 33, a nervous, myopic member of the FLQ's five-man "leadership committee." Husky and humorless, Schoeters (he pronounces it scooters) arrived from Belgium in 1951, telling stories of how he was a teen-age partisan against the Nazis in World War II. With the help of a sympathetic University of Montreal sociology professor, he quickly learned English, then entered the university to study economics. All went well for a while until he suffered a nervous breakdown from which, as one friend said, he emerged with a "terrific instability...
...separatists he met disagreed with his thesis that revolutions always bring solutions. But he did find a few like-minded souls-an unemployed newspaperman, a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. messenger, the son of a prominent Quebec attorney, a draftsman and a proofreader. Early this year several of them founded the FLQ and decided that something dramatic was necessary to win Quebec's masses to the separatist cause...
...started," said one of the arsonists as he watched the flames. They then sent a communique to Montreal newspapers declaring their mission: "To completely destroy, by systematic sabotage, all the symbols of colonial institutions." From arson the band moved to bombing-the creation of public impact by dynamite. FLQ targets were such "colonial" institutions as armories, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and army buildings. On April 20 an army recruiting center nightwatchman was killed when he attempted to remove a bomb planted in a garbage can outside the building. Four weeks later a Canadian army bomb expert was maimed when...
Bombs may be common in the southern part of the Western Hemisphere, but what was going on in peaceful Canada? Near some of the bombsites appeared the signature FLQ, meaning Front de Liberation Quebecois. The Front is a lunatic fringe of violent nationalists whose aim is the secession of French-speaking Quebec from the rest of English-speaking Canada. Estimates of its strength run from a handful to a few score-and so far the cops have no idea who the leaders are. But neither Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage nor the federal government of Prime Minister Lester Pearson...