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...shooting brought a mob of 1,500, mainly made up of caldoches, into the streets of Noumea, where they hurled rocks and bottles at police. Tensions increased the next day when at least 100 gendarmes surrounded a farmhouse near La Foa, 55 miles northwest of the capital. There, Eloi Machoro, a leader of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, a militant Separatist party, and 50 of his followers were gathered. In a dawn raid, Machoro and one of his aides, Marcel Nornaro, were killed. Jean-Marie Tjibaou, the president of a provisional Kanak government formed last month by the Liberation...
...immigrants, who are in the majority. Under the Pisani plan, New Caledonia would become a sovereign nation but remain "associated" with France, which has ruled it since 1853. Political representatives of the French settlers have already rejected the plan because, they claim, it would give the Kanaks effective control. Machoro's death also turned moderate Kanaks against the proposal. "We will stay open to discussion, but we will not negotiate at all for the sovereignty of our country," Tjibaou told the 2,000 mourners who had gathered for Machoro's funeral procession...
...sooner had calm returned to Noumea than violence broke out in La Foa, a community about 55 miles northwest of the capital. Gendarmes surrounded an abandoned farmhouse in which Kanak Leader Eloi Machoro and 50 of his followers were staying. Machoro and an aide were killed in a gunfight...
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