Kanak rebels held in police raid
NZPA-Reuter Noumea
About 30 supporters of independence from France were detained yesterday when scores of police raided a militant stronghold in New Caledonia after renewed violence in the territory. The militants were rounded up in the dawn raid on the east coast nickelmining town of Thio, but fewer than 10 were held for
questioning, said the French special envoy, Edgard Pisani. There were clashes on Monday with militants of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front who had put up road-blocks on the east coast to support a schools boycott. Two motorists were seriously hurt and about 20 cars badly damaged when Melanesian Kanaks stoned vehicles, the police said.
The raid was conducted as the F.L.N.K.S. staged a protest in the small town of Canala, north of Thio, by closing down all the schools, shops and restaurants, police sources said. The authorities are still hunting for four members of the Right-wing Caledonian Front, ordered to leave the territory for provoking clashes in which two gendarmes and 11 Kanaks were hurt.
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