France steals our youth and recruits them into the colonial army abroad, the representative of Tāvini Huiraʻatira, a pro-independence political party in French Polynesia, Heinui Le Caill, said at the international conference “Neo-colonialism: violation of human rights and injustice”, organized by the Baku Initiative Group (BIG), Report informs.
According to him, the Polynesian people obtained economic and political sovereignty from colonial France thanks to their struggle: "They owe us, but they do not pay their debt. Our pro-independence party has been fighting against colonialism for 40 years and wants it to end. Our country was included in the list of non-autonomous countries in the 1940s. But France removed us from the list in 1947. Then we were included again, but now the French state is trying to remove us from the list again to prevent our independence."