BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 24. “Since Could 13,
2024, with the beginning of latest occasions in New Caledonia, France has
begun to resurrect the ghost of its colonial previous on this distant
territory. The federal government’s remedy of the Saint-Louis tribe,
positioned in Mont-Dore within the south of the island, sadly,
resembles the way in which it handled native populations through the Algerian
Conflict. With none sense of disgrace, the federal government acts as if dealing
with 1,200 criminals who should be neutralized and silenced, regardless of
the disproportionate steadiness of drive, Pattern stories.
Did our tribe, with its proud historical past, need to lose three of
its kids? These younger males had been killed for bravely defending
their political beliefs. Armed with little greater than looking rifles,
stone-throwing gadgets, and easy sandals, they perished underneath the
bullets of the GIGN (French Nationwide Gendarmerie). Plainly
the 1000’s of kilometers separating New Caledonia from France
turned the idea of self-defense right into a license to kill within the
Pacific,” the assertion of the Kanak Folks mentioned.
The assertion mentioned, “The assassins of independence chief Pierre
Declercq, who was executed in 1981, appear to really feel no regret. This
is why we’ve the fitting to query the explanations that compelled the
state to deploy such drive to gun down three younger Kanaks. Even
extra worrying is the demand that different surviving members of our
tribe give up to keep away from the identical destiny as their brothers. In such a
small space, everybody is aware of they might be captured and imprisoned at
any second.
Thus, justice is being “restored” with uncommon velocity on the
island of Saint-Louis. But, as Decide Claire-Marie Casanova as soon as
mentioned, “Justice isn’t well timed, by no means early, and at all times criticized
for its delay.” So why the sudden urgency in authorized issues
regarding our tribe? We demand a solution to this query, as we
harbor doubts in regards to the state’s true motives on this case.
What we all know for positive is that the federal government’s so-called divine
mission is neither impeded by respect for the legislation nor by the loss
of human lives. One solely wants to look at the rising variety of
army automobiles unlawfully patrolling our roads. It is as if the
Pacific Ocean’s personal Berlin Wall is slowly being erected round our
tribe. Our lands are underneath siege, our individuals are affected by
starvation, and our youth are being killed.
We not anticipate something from the native judiciary. We’re
pressured to show to it, however its unjust choices shield the
highly effective, crush the weak, and plunge us into incomprehensible
despair.
We’re sure that the Saint-Louis tribe has unwillingly turn out to be
the centerpiece of a horrific sport orchestrated by the federal government.
On this sport, the victims are portrayed as executioners by the
authorities’s propaganda, all in an effort to protect colonial
order.
If the present system in Saint-Louis is described as a “crash
take a look at” for the federal government’s declare to regulate all the territory,
then let it’s identified: martyring a whole tribe could also be simpler than
crushing the dream of Kanak independence.”
The assertion was signed by Eugène Décoiré, President of the
Council of Clan Chiefs and Yohann Wamytan, Member of the Council of
Clan Chiefs.