Read, line by line, this text of a decree written by Pierre Messmer in 1971 as Minister of the French Overseas Territories. The project she announced – and which unfortunately was carried out – is quite simply to “whiten” New Caledonia. Establishing an apartheid-type regime and making the Kanak a minority in his own country: these are the objectives of this colonialist and racist policy. “New Caledonia, a settlement colony although doomed to multiracial diversity, is probably the last (…)