2 January 2014
France’s deadly pacific siege – Movie 'Rebellion' available on Netflix
• When hostage negotiator Legorjus arrives in Ouvéa he finds 300 French soldiers beating and humiliating the native Kanak people
The film pulls no punches, making it clear that the right-wing government in France wants a swift rather than peaceful solution and is willing to sacrifice the lives of its own military and the local Kanaks
REBELLION, the movie based on the 1988 siege and ‘hostage crisis’ when independence activists stormed a police station on the tiny pacific island of Ouvéa in the French colony of New Caledonia, is available on Netflix.
More than 20 people lost their lives in the real-life story.
Read Mark Moloney's cinema release review here.
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