The World - News from May 8, 1988
Hundreds of Melanesians demonstrated peacefully in New Caledonia to protest the killing of 19 separatists by French commandos who stormed a cave Thursday and freed 23 French hostages. About 500 police officers lined the streets of Noumea, the capital, during the five-hour march and rally. Several thousand French police and soldiers remained on alert, although the main Kanak separatist group said it would not disrupt voting today in the French territory in the South Pacific during the French presidential runoff election.
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