Editing New Caledonia (section)

====The Events====
Between 1976 and 1988, a period referred to as "the Events"<ref name="lm-mdg-24">{{cite news |last1=Mannevy |first1=Charlotte |last2=Derel |first2=Mathurin |last3=Guibert |first3=Nathalie |title=Second night of riots shakes New Caledonia: 'I didn't think it could come to this' |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/05/15/second-night-of-riots-shakes-new-caledonia-i-didn-t-think-it-could-come-to-this_6671533_7.html |work=Le Monde |date=May 15, 2024 |access-date=16 May 2024 |archive-date=24 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524043441/https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/05/15/second-night-of-riots-shakes-new-caledonia-i-didn-t-think-it-could-come-to-this_6671533_7.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="nyt-vb-caled-24">{{cite news |last1=Vinograd |first1=Cassandra |last2=Breeden |first2=Aurelien |title=France Declares State of Emergency Amid Protests in New Caledonia |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/world/asia/new-caledonia-france-macron.html |work=The New York Times |date=May 15, 2024 |access-date=16 May 2024 |archive-date=24 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524053018/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/world/asia/new-caledonia-france-macron.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ({{langx|fr|Les Événements}}<ref name="horowitz-may-2009-pol-geo">{{cite journal |last1=Horowitz |first1=Leah S. |title=Environmental violence and crises of legitimacy in New Caledonia |journal=[[Political Geography]] |date=May 2009 |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=248–258 |doi=10.1016/j.polgeo.2009.07.001 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S096262980900064X |issn=1873-5096 |access-date=16 May 2024 |archive-date=16 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516233831/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S096262980900064X |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="fisher-anu-2013">{{cite book |last1=Fisher |first1=Denise |title=France in the South Pacific: Power and Politics |date=May 2013 |doi=10.22459/FSP.05.2013 |doi-access=free |publisher=[[ANU Press]] |location=[[Canberra]] |isbn=9781922144942}}</ref>), conflicts between French government actions and the Kanak independence movement saw periods of serious violence and disorder.<ref name="ped" /> In 1983, a statute of "enlarged autonomy" for the territory proposed a five-year transition period and a referendum in 1989. In March 1984, the Front Indépendantiste, a Kanak resistance group, seized farms and the [[Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front]] (FLNKS) formed a provisional government. In January 1985, the French Left-wing government offered sovereignty to the Kanaks and legal protection for European settlers. The plan faltered as violence escalated. The government declared a state of emergency; however, [[1985 New Caledonian legislative election|regional elections went ahead]], and the FLNKS won control of three out of four provinces. The centre-right government [[1986 French legislative election|elected in France in March 1986]] began eroding the arrangements established under the Socialists, redistributing lands mostly without consideration of native land claims, resulting in over two-thirds going to Europeans and less than a third to the Kanaks. By the end of 1987, roadblocks, gun battles and the destruction of property culminated in the [[Ouvéa cave hostage taking]], a dramatic hostage crisis just days before the [[1988 French presidential election]] began. Pro-independence militants on [[Ouvéa]] killed four gendarmes and took 27 hostage. The military assaulted the cave to rescue the hostages. Nineteen Kanak hostage takers were killed and another three died in custody, while two soldiers were killed during the assault.<ref>{{Cite news| url= https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/land-and-independence-new-caledonia| title= Land and Independence in New Caledonia| work= Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine| last= Winslow| first= Donna| date= June 1991| via= culturalsurvival.org| access-date= 2021-02-11| language= en| archive-date= 13 November 2017| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171113112859/https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/land-and-independence-new-caledonia| url-status= live}}</ref>