{"id":64168,"date":"2024-05-18T09:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/18\/we-will-fight-until-kanaky-is-free-how-new-caledonia-caught-fire"},"modified":"2024-05-18T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:35:42","slug":"we-will-fight-until-kanaky-is-free-how-new-caledonia-caught-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64168","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We will fight until Kanaky is free\u2019: how New Caledonia caught fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The frustration that erupted into deadly violence in the French territory last week has been building for years<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the main road in Rivi\u00e8re-Sal\u00e9e, north of Noum\u00e9a, sits a burnt-out car. After days of rioting, young men with masked faces wave a Kanak flag as vehicles pass. All around is desolation. Shops with gutted fronts, burnt buildings, debris on the pavements and roads. Gangs of young people roam the area.<\/p>\n<p>The violence that erupted last week is the worst in New Caledonia since unrest involving independence activists gripped the French Pacific territory in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/18\/we-will-fight-until-kanaky-is-free-how-new-caledonia-caught-fire\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The frustration that erupted into deadly violence in the French territory last week has been building for yearsIn the middle of the main road in Rivi\u00e8re-Sal\u00e9e, north of Noum\u00e9a, sits a burnt-out car. After days of rioting, young men with masked faces wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,221,526,1102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-france","category-new-caledonia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64169,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64168\/revisions\/64169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}