Forty years after his death, Éloi Machoro's battle continues unabated

On 12 January 1985, the GIGN [National Gendarmerie Intervention Group] shot dead Éloi Machoro, bringing to a halt two months of an uprising that shook the colonial order in New Caledonia and revealed to the world the existence of the Kanak people and their fight against French domination. Forty (...)