Deadly Clashes in a French Pacific Territory Raise Fears of Civil War
Briefly

A chocolate factory and a soda bottling plant set on fire. Molotov cocktails thrown at the police, and prisoners taking guards hostage. Five people dead.
France annexed New Caledonia in 1853, leading to the Indigenous Kanaks becoming a minority. The 1980s saw a violent uprising quelled by French troops, with dozens dead.
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