Éloi Machoro

Éloi Machoro (January 1949 – 12 January 1985) was a New Caledonian Kanak separatist politician.

Career Machoro was born in Nakety in January 1949. He held several jobs, including clerk, farm worker, miner and a teacher in a primary school. According to the gendarmerie, Machoro was shot in the shoulder; and the gendarmes attempted to keep him alive, but he would succumb to his injuries about thirty minutes later, on the way to the hospital. In a version told by a fellow FLNKS member, Machoro, who did not die directly after being shot, was already gone when the gendarmes took the farm over.