Word: noumea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggling for independence after 131 years of French rule. Sporadic clashes between the two groups have resulted in 18 killings over the past two months. The latest outbreak was sparked by the shooting death of a 17-year-old French settler some 40 miles northwest of the capital, Noumea. Within only a few hours, more than 1,000 people, most of them caldoches, took to the streets of the capital, hurling rocks at gendarmes and setting fire to buildings. About 30 people were injured as police attempted to restore order with tear...
...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...