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Liberation for New Caledonia’s Kanak people ‘must come’, says media educator
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A New Zealand author, journalist and media educator who has covered the Asia-Pacific region since the 1970s says liberation “must come” for Kanaky/New Caledonia.
A New Zealand author, journalist and media educator who has covered the Asia-Pacific region since the 1970s says liberation “must come” for Kanaky/New Caledonia.
Dr David Robie sailed on board Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior until it was bombed by French secret agents in New Zealand in July 1985 and wrote the book Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior.
He has also been arrested at gun point in New Caledonia while on a mission reporting on the indigenous Kanak uprising in the 1980s and wrote Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific.
Pictured above: Some of Dr David Robie's books . . . Och Världen Blundar ... ("And the World Closed its Eyes") is the Swedish edition of his 1989 Blood on their Banner book. Image: APR
- LISTEN TO RNZ PACIFIC WAVES: Kanak ‘liberation must be granted’ (30min)
- RNZ's Lydia Lewis interviews Dr David Robie
- Other Kanaky New Caledonia crisis reports
The Asia Pacific Report editor and Asia Pacific Media Network member told RNZ Pacific’s Lydia Lewis that France was “torpedoing” any hopes of Kanaky independence.
This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ and Asia Pacific Report.
