Arab Cemetery & Memorial

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Ten kilometres east of Bourail on RT1 is a mosque, an Arab cemetery and a memorial to Arabs, Kabyles, Algerians, Moroccans and Tunisians who were deported to New Caledonia between 1864 and 1896. Most took part in uprisings against French colonial rule in their homelands.

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