TAHITI: AIRPORT CLOSED AFTER ANTI FRENCH NUCLEAR PROTESTERS RIOT (2)
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Rage at France's nuclear test in the South Pacific has boiled over into full-scale riots at Tahiti's airport.
Angry demonstrators from the island's Independence Party clashed with French riot police and trashed and burned airport buildings, overturning cars and setting them ablaze.
Order was eventually restored, at the cost of several rioters and police being seriously injured.
A pall of smoke hung over Tahiti's international airport as police fought to dampen scenes of mayhem.
The fire which rioters had earlier started in one of the terminal buildings had been doused but the shells of cars continued to blaze across the airport complex.
Nine people were injured in the melee.
It should have been the end of a holiday in paradise, but for passengers trying to fly out to Paris and New Zealand it turned into hell.
SOUNDBITE (vox pop)
Well, more annoyed than really frightened. You know, we had never really been in anything like this. So I was somewhat concerned...I was surprised that it was getting that violent. I thought it might be a more peaceful type demonstration.
(man)
When I got off the plane I didn't know if the next step that I took the plane would blow up behind me because I had no idea what the capabilities are here. I know that if we had been in America we would all have been dead.
(woman)
This was a really bad experience, especially for someone's honeymoon. We'd never have thought that it would escalate to that point. I guess I was also shocked at the total mayhem, like nobody knew what to do.
(woman)
After sunset, hundreds of protesters marched from the airport to downtown Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, smashing shop windows, looting clothing stores, setting a perfumery ablaze, and stoning the territorial assembly building among others.
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TAHITI: ANTI FRENCH NUCLEAR TEST RIOTS CONTINUE
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Riots continued in Tahiti Wednesday evening, with hundreds of protesters rampaging from the airport to downtown Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia.
They smashed shop windows, looted clothing stores, set a perfumery ablaze and stoned the territorial assembly building.
Firefighters battled dozens of blazes, including one that forced the evacuation of the Royal Papeete Hotel, but had them under control by midnight.
The French government has now sent in the elite Foreign Legion to secure the airport and allow riot police to restore order in the town.
Riot police who had spent the day in pitched battle at the airport moved to the centre of town as hundreds of anti-French demonstrators went on a rampage in the capital.
The political protest soon became a mob riot - shops, restaurants and businesses were gutted as protesters looted both for wares and for weapons.
They used axes and sticks to smash into shop windows. Some even brought bags to carry the stolen goods.
A number of arrests were made, but no figures were made available.
As fires broke out in the city, local people moved to help firefighters battle the flames.
The total cost of damage to the city has not been determined, but damage at the airport was said to be more than 11 (m) million U-S dollars.
Authorities said relative calm has returned to the city by early Thursday morning. The airport, where French paratroopers and Legionnaires arrived in the evening to provide support was also under control.
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Tahiti - Greenpeace Joins Mass Anti Nuclear Demo
The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior II left Papeete, Tahiti
Thursday (24/8) to join a flotilla of as many as 50 boats of
various nationalities at the 12-mile exclusion zone around
France's nuclear test site at Mururoa. In the Territorial Assembly, protesters unfurled an anti-nuclear banner and shouted Chirac, Assassin! as President Gaston Flosse addressed the body. Independent opposition leader Oscar Temaru demanded aid for the population of Mururoa, whose island he said was highly contaminated. The traditional
outrigger canoe Te Ao O Tonga arrived in Papeete from the Cook
Islands with a delegation from American Samoa. They plan to join
the peace flotilla at Mururoa.
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Cook Islanders aboard traditional sailing raft, performing the
haka in protest at the nuclear tests
CU dancers jumping in air
drums being played on foreshore
US Congressman Eni Faleomavega greeting sailors as they come
ashore
Shore line traditional welcome women with garlands
Eni Faleomavega, Congressman, American Samoa, sot; the president
of the US fully supports the concept and is calling on president
Chirac again - hopefully he'll change his mind. public boycott of
French goods should send a strong message to President Chirac.
WS boat and shoreline greeting
Tua Pittman, Captain, sot: we know better how to take care of the
islands (than President Chirac)
Pan sitting of French Polynesian Parliament inside debating
chamber
MCU Speaker with flags behind him and portrait of Chirac
French Polynesia's Opposition Leader Oscar Temaru enters chamber
and greets other members
Anti-nuclear protesters at back of chamber raise banner disrupting
parliament's session
WS Chamber with banner
cutaway of President of Polynesia Gaston Flosse inside
chamber
Oscar Temaru, Independence Party, sot; since Chirac's decisiona
mood of anger has grown quickly throughout the whole population of
this country. the battle is not over yet.
vs Anti nuclear banners being paraded in front of Greenpeace
vessel Rainbow Warrior II in Papeete harbour
Greenpeace Captain John Castle in wheelhouse of Rainbow Warrior II
with charts for trip to Mururoa Atoll
John Castle, Rainbow Warrior II Captain, sot; if there is any
way, by placing ourselves in the test zone, to prevent the tests,
i'm sure we'll do that. we're aiming at a worthwhile goal.
various of Rainbow Warrior's final preparations and farewell from
Tahitian supporters
Boat leaving harbour
tahitians paddle canoe
rainbow warrior on open sea
ends: 2.58
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Breaking News | Edouard Fritch is re-elected French Polynesia president
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Edouard Fritch's emerges from a polling booth in French Polynesia's recent territorial elections. The assembly today re-elected Mr Fritch to serve another five year term as president. Photo: RNZI Edouard Fritch has been re-elected as French Polynesia’s president for a five-year term. In the territorial assembly, Mr Fritch of the Tapura Huiraatira received the backing of 39 of the 57 members. He defeated the challenges of Geffry Salmon of the Tahoeraa Huiraatira Party and of the five-time preside...
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PACIFIC: TAHITI: POLITICAL BACKGROUNDER
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France's plan to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific has caused angry protests in Tahiti, the political and economic center of French Polynesia.
Opposition leaders have seized upon the dissatisfaction to drive home their pro-independence message, gaining support in last week's elections held in the capital Papeete.
The Tahitian city of Faaa is one of French Polynesia's most crowded communities.
Its population - 50 per cent who are under the age of 21 - live in an area of high unemployment.
Two-thirds of the residents are Polynesian.
Faaa is also the country's independence stronghold and home to one of Tahiti's most outspoken opposition leaders - Oscar Temaru, the mayor of Faaa and head of the party Tavini Hui Raatra.
Temaru seeks complete independence from France and is in staunch opposition to any nuclear testing - an issue that has brought him into conflict with the French government over its policies in Polynesia.
SOUNDBITE:
All the powers in this country is in the hands of the French representative, I mean the French High Commission. And yes it is true we have a territorial government. But it is only a puppet government. Let's say, this is a good example the decision taken by the French President to resume nuclear testing in Mururoa. Can we say no? No, it is the decision by the colonial power. That's it.
SUPER CAPTION: Oscar Temaru, Opposition leader French Polynesia
In neighbouring Papeete, the commercial and political center of Tahiti, many residents hope for autonomy.
VOX POPS: (in French)
#1: I prefer Oscar Temaru and I'm tried of France giving us orders. They can stay her but we would like to be in control. - But there is also an awareness of the economic reality and the nuclear issue is accepted by many.
#2: For me it's good. It brings work for the people.
High in the hills of Faaa, overlooking Papeete harbour, lives one of the founding fathers of modern Tahitian politics.
Francis Sanford, president of French Polynesia in the 1970s, brought about unprecedented autonomy to the region.
France's policy decisions in the Pacific still trouble the 85-year old Sanford.
He is also critical of the French Polynesian President, Gaston Flosse.
SOUNDBITE: (in French)
Chirac made the decision for the bomb and Flosse (President of French Polynesia) played a strange game. Before leaving for Paris he told local reporters 'as a Polynesia I am against the bomb?' When hearing in the national assembly he declared in front of all the deputies that he bows to the president's decisions, the president of the Republic of France decision, so he prefers the president over the Polynesians.
SUPER CAPTION: Francis Sanford, Former President of French Polynesia
But as Tahiti's independence movement gains momentum - boosted recently by France's latest nuclear policy - it still faces the harsh realities of being dependent on a colonial power in an isolated region.
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TAHITI: BEAUTIFUL, BRIGHTLY COLOURED CANOES ???? at the waterfront of PAPEETE
SUBSCRIBE: - This is a video that presents the artistic beauty of the racing canoes in the waterfront of the beautiful city of Papeete, the capital of Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean. Over 200 beautifully colored canoes lie in the bright sunshine and the spectacle is unique indeed, this is a video that gets away from the historic and cultural subjects that I usually deal with; it is a video that celebrates the beauty of color as a fort of art.
Tahiti is the largest island in French Polynesia, the South Pacific archipelago. Shaped like a figure-8, it's divided into Tahiti Nui (the larger, western section) and Tahiti Iti (the eastern peninsula). With black-sand beaches, lagoons, waterfalls and 2 extinct volcanoes, it's a popular vacation destination. Explored by Captain James Cook in the 18th century, it was also often painted by French artist Paul Gauguin.
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Anthem French Polynesia
A French overseas country in the South Pacific, also including Tahiti, La Marseillaise is its official anthem, however, a local anthem was adopted in 1993, and is played every June 29 during the Internal Autonomy Festival, and every time French Polynesia participates in an international conference.
The anthem was chosen from among 17 works during a competition launched by the Council of Ministers on May 17, 1992. The French Polynesia Assembly adopted this composition as the Territory's official anthem during its June 10, 1993 session. The anthem was composed and written by a group of people, they all agreed to give the Territory all royalties from the anthem.
A bit of a controversy ensued when the anthem was unveiled, the lyrics (and the title) refer to Tahiti Nui; while Tahiti is the largest island and is where a majority of the population and the capital are situated, it excludes the other islands and archipelagoes in the territory. There were requests to change the lyrics to Maohi Nui instead, which is more representative of Polynesia.
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French Polynesia Anthem
Anthem Title: “Ia Ora ‘O Tahiti Nui” (Tahitian)
“Long Live Tahiti Nui” (English translation)
Description: A French “overseas country” in the South Pacific, also including Tahiti, “La Marseillaise” is the official anthem of French Polynesia, however, a local anthem was adopted in 1993, and is played every June 29 during the Internal Autonomy Festival, and every time French Polynesia participates in an international conference.
The anthem was chosen from among 17 works during a competition launched by the Council of Ministers on May 17, 1992. The French Polynesia Assembly adopted this composition as the Territory’s official anthem during its June 10, 1993 session. The anthem was composed and written by a group of people, they all agreed to give the Territory all royalties from the anthem.
A bit of a controversy ensued when the anthem was unveiled, the lyrics (and the title) refer to “Tahiti Nui”; while Tahiti is the largest island and is where a majority of the population and the capital are situated, it excludes the other islands and archipelagoes in the territory. There were requests to change the lyrics to “Maohi Nui” instead, which is more representative of Polynesia.
In Use Since: June 10, 1993
Tahitian lyrics
‘Ua rahu te atua (i) to’u ‘ai’a
Hono no’ano’a o te motu rau
Heihei i te pua ri’i au é
E firi nape morohi ‘ore
‘O ta’u ia e fa’ateniteni nei
Te Tuoro nei te reo here
O te hui’a
‘A hi’i to aroha
‘Ia ora o Tahiti Nui é
English translation
God created my country
Garland of multiple islands
With such delicate fragrances
linked up as an everlasting braid
Today let me praise you
Listen to your children’s voice
Crying out “Lavish your love”
So that Tahiti Nui can live.
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Papeete
Papeete is the capital of French Polynesia, an overseas country of France in the Pacific Ocean. The commune of Papeete is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, of which Papeete is the administrative capital. The French High Commissioner also resides in Papeete. It is the primary center of Tahitian and French Polynesian public and private governmental, commercial, industrial and financial services, the hub of French Polynesian tourism and a commonly used port of call. The Windward Islands are themselves part of the Society Islands. The name Papeete means water from a basket.
The urban area of Papeete had a total population of 133,627 inhabitants at the August 2012 census, 25,769 of whom lived in the commune of Papeete proper.
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French Polynesia ( ( listen); French: Polynésie française [pɔlinezi fʁɑ̃sɛz]; Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas collectivity of the French Republic and the only overseas country of France. It is composed of 118 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over an expanse of more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) in the South Pacific Ocean. Its total land area is 4,167 square kilometres (1,609 sq mi).
French Polynesia is divided into five groups of islands: the Society Islands archipelago, composed of the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands; the Tuamotu Archipelago; the Gambier Islands; the Marquesas Islands; and the Austral Islands. Among its 118 islands and atolls, 67 are inhabited. Tahiti, which is located within the Society Islands, is the most populous island, having close to 69% of the population of French Polynesia as of 2017. Papeete, located on Tahiti, is the capital. Although not an integral part of its territory, Clipperton Island was administered from French Polynesia until 2007.
Following the Great Polynesian Migration, European explorers visited the islands of French Polynesia on several occasions. Traders and whaling ships also visited. In 1842, the French took over the islands and established a French protectorate they called Etablissements des français en Océanie (EFO) (French Establishments/Settlements in Oceania).
In 1946, the EFOs became an overseas territory under the constitution of the French Fourth Republic, and Polynesians were granted the right to vote through citizenship. In 1957, the EFOs were renamed French Polynesia. Since 28 March 2003, French Polynesia has been an overseas collectivity of the French Republic under the constitutional revision of article 74, and later gained, with law 2004-192 of 27 February 2004, an administrative autonomy, two symbolic manifestations of which are the title of the President of French Polynesia and its additional designation as an overseas country.
French Polynesia
French Polynesia (/ˈfrɛntʃ pɒlɨˈniːʒə/; French: Polynésie française, pronounced: [pɔlinezi fʁɑ̃sɛz]; Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas country (pays d'outre-mer) of the French Republic. It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory (Papeetē). Although not an integral part of its territory, Clipperton Island was administered from French Polynesia until 2007.
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