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Blasts hit Corsica after voters reject government reform plan
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Xinhua News Agency
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July 7, 2003
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Blasts hit Corsica after voters reject government reform plan
PARIS, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Four vacant holiday residences on the
French Mediterranean island of Corsica were blown up overnight after
voters narrowly rejected a reform plan to give more autonomy to the
island in Sunday's referendum.
The destroyed homes, belonging to French people, were seen by
Corsican separatists as symbols of France's presence on the island.
The separatists, who have been engaged in three decades of
violence to protest against the French control of the island, took
Sunday's referendum result as a failure for their struggle to get
self-rule.
The referendum was on a local institutions reform plan proposed by ...