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This is the best summary I could come up with:
France declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in its territory of New Caledonia following protests against changes to the election laws that turned violent and have left four people dead.
New Caledonia has been a French territory since it was first colonized in 1853, becoming a penal colony throughout the second half of the 19th century, and many of the Indigenous Kanak people have fought for independence over the decades.
One concession France did allow after massive and violent protests in the 1980s and ‘90s was the Noumea Accords of 1998, which froze the ability of any newly arrived people from the French mainland to vote in local elections.
TikTok is also now banned in the territory as French authorities have blamed the app for helping organize the demonstrations, and “attracting troublemakers to the streets,” as the South China Morning Post put it.
Daniel Goa, a pro-independence party leader in New Caledonia, condemned any looting while urging young people to go home, but pointed out the anger at the heart of the riots.
“Violence is neither justifiable nor tolerable,” French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday according to an English language translation by New Zealand news outlet 1News.
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Lol, why don't they build a big army base in between several tall hills in a marshy area? Surely that will stop these pesky rebels.