A New Zealand author, journalist and media educator who has covered the Asia-Pacific region since the 1970s says liberation “must come” for Kanaky/New Caledonia.
Professor David Robie sailed on board Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior until it was bombed by French secret agents in New Zealand in July 1985 and wrote the book Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior.
He has also been arrested at gun point in New Caledonia while on a mission reporting on the indigenous Kanak uprising in the 1980s and wrote the book Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific.
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The Asia Pacific Report editor told RNZ Pacific’s Lydia Lewis France was “torpedoing” any hopes of Kanaky independence.
This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.
APR editor | Radio Free (2024-05-21T03:00:56+00:00) Liberation for New Caledonia’s Kanak people ‘must come’, says educator. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2024/05/21/liberation-for-new-caledonias-kanak-people-must-come-says-educator/
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