According to the honorary lawyer of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front, “We must stop with the criminalization of independence activists who are fighting for the liberation of their country.”
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“This has all the characteristics of colonial justice. You have to call things by their name“, denounced Monday on franceinfo François Roux, honorary lawyer of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), while the violence resumed during the night from Sunday to Monday in New Caledonia after the indictment and incarceration in mainland France of several independence activists.
“We dispersed these activists who have no blood on their hands, we dispersed them in French prisons, isolated from each other“, François Roux is indignant. The lawyer believes that it is necessary above all “deal with problems”. According to him, “the problem of New Caledonia is a problem of decolonization“. He recalls that New Caledonia “has been included on the list of countries to be decolonized by the United Nations since 1986, that every year, France, which is considered the administering power, must make a report to this committee“.
François Roux pleads for “a mediation“and calls for”a truth and reconciliation commission which will involve everyone in New Caledonia“.”We must obtain the return of prisoners currently in France, in New Caledonia“, insists the honorary lawyer of the FLNKS. “I hope, as we did with the Noumea Accords at the time, that we will be able to conclude peace agreements which will make New Caledonia an independent state in association with France. It is entirely possible in our Constitution, it is the future: an independent State in association with France. We must get out of colonization.”
François Roux also denounces “the deportation to France of independence activists whose only inconvenience is that they are activists demanding independence“. The lawyer recalls that “the first settlers to arrive in New Caledonia were French convicts, often political activists, Louise Michel for example“.”France deported political activists to New Caledonia. And now she is deporting political activists from New Caledonia to France“, François Roux is indignant. “We must stop the criminalization of independence activists who fight for the liberation of their country“, adds the lawyer.
