Kanaky, a Modern-Day Haiti? – Regards.fr

One year after the revolts in New Caledonia, the crisis is taking hold. At stake: the ability to emerge from a colonial relationship, here as elsewhere. History teaches us the consequences of a stubborn buttocked and absurd. On April 7, 1803, Toussaint Louverture would die at Fort de Joux, in the Doubs. It had been seven months since the hero of Santo Domingo (the present-day Haiti) crouched in this jail of the Republic. Her wrong? To have led t…