Ouvéa cave hostage taking

Quando

22 de abr. de 1988 – 5 de mai. de 1988

Tipo

Operação militar

Coordenadas

20.65° S, 166.56° E

Description

1988 hostage crisis

1988 hostage crisis in New Caledonia

The Ouvéa cave hostage taking occurred from 22 April 1988 to 5 May 1988 on the island of Ouvéa, New Caledonia, a south Pacific archipelago under control of France. During the stand-off and seizure of a brigade of gendarmerie, members of an independence movement, the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front, killed four gendarmes and took 27 unarmed gendarmes hostages, later also taking hostage a public prosecuto…

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