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1. 1989

   Ouvéa cave massacreGovernment & Intelligence

   On the first anniversary of the assault, at a commemoration on Ouvéa, Djubelly Wea, a Kanak from the island who had been detained after the crisis, assassinates Tjibaou and fellow FLNKS leader Yeiwéné Yeiwéné before being killed by a bodyguard, a violent coda to the events the accords were meant to close.

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