Update (No. 3) comparative table 1984-2024

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24 June 2025

Update (No. 3) comparative table 1984-2024

Hello everyone,

The association is getting back to you at the beginning of this week to send you its comparative table of events between 1984 and 2024, updated as of June 24, 2025.

Find below the cited document: Comparison 1984 – 2024 (june 2025)

The association is also taking this opportunity to relay a documentary broadcast on France 5 yesterday, entitled: Africa-France: divorce?, available, in french, at the following link until December 26, 2025: Afrique-France : le divorce ? en replay – Le monde en face | France TV

Through this, we learn in particular that even though African states were able to obtain their independence, they still remain to this day under a certain domination, French influence possible in particular by the maintenance of military bases in many of them. It is thus surprising that certain Caledonian independence supporters propose to France to be able to keep French bases even if New Caledonia would acquire full sovereignty, to the extent that certain elements of the French army had supported Caledonian bushmen with a view to provoking riots in Nouméa in 1958 (see CHAPPELL David, The Kanak Awakening, The Rise of Nationalism in New Caledonia, UNC-Madrépores, 2013, p.50). The “Billotte” laws, created by its author Pierre Billotte, a French general and politician, aimed in the 1960s to remove powers from New Caledonia in favor of mainland France.

As Hardt and Negri pointed out in 2000, multinational companies, financiers and even the military often force small states to remain dependent.

This is why, in the event of dry independence, the association proposes solution no. 2 aimed at placing itself under the umbrella of regional powers such as Australia and New Zealand . The fact also that France is slow to return simple stolen traditional objects (sculptures, masks, statuettes, etc.) currently present in its museums by the thousands clearly demonstrates that it is not yet ready to return a much more important good for the colonized populations, namely: land.

We wish you a good read and remind you that federalism is the only solution to reconcile unity in diversity.

The APROFED association