The FLQ Or The Front De Québec: A National Liberation Movement

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The year is 1969, you live in an English neighbourhood in Montreal and you've just woken up from your slumber and decide to go get the mail as you've been expecting something. I bet you wouldn't have expected this. As soon as you open your mailbox a bomb sets of in your face, blows you back and you land in the hospital. That’s how it was for many of the citizens of Quebec. This brings us to who the FLQ were and What they did.

The FLQ or the` Front de libération de Québec was a national liberation movement that was founded in 1963. The goal was to achieve independence of Quebec by restoring to terrorism, if necessary. It was made up of a group of unknown french Canadians whose occasionally declaration called for a Marxist/Anarchist insurrection,

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