FLQ

British

abbreviation

Front de Libération du Québec: a Quebec separatist organization using terrorist tactics, esp in the 1960s and 1970s

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The assailants belonged to the Front de Libération du Québec, or FLQ, a militant group that called for the independence of their Francophone province in eastern Canada.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2021

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