Militants return to N. Caledonia
NZPA-AFP Paris Twenty-six pro-separa-tist New Caledonia militants left Paris yesterday for Noumea, three days after being released under a controversial French Government amnesty, authoritative sources said. All had been held in France in connection with violence in April and May in the French South Pacific territory. They were previously thought to have left on Thursday, but the sources said they stayed
in the Paris region. The 26 left on a special flight accompanied by two officials of the separatist Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (F.L.N.K.S.).
The Melanesians were all held in connection with an attack on a New Caledonia police station in which four police officers were killed and a later hostage-taking, in which 19 Melanesians and two soldiers died when troops stormed a cave where gendarmes were being held prisoner.
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