Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 4, 2016 18:29:31 GMT 12
A HUNDRED YEARS ON, RUA KENANA RAID MARKED
A commemoration to mark 100 years since armed police raided Rua Kēnana's settlement in the heart of Te Urewera has sparked calls for the prophet to be pardoned.
On 2 April 1916, the pacifist prophet Rua Kēnana was arrested and his son Toko and Toko's uncle Te Maipi were shot dead during the police operation at Maungapōhatu
It's not clear who fired the first shot but the late historian Judith Binney said the evidence suggested it was the police.
Rua was later cleared of sedition charges but found morally guilty of resisting arrest. The jurors failed to reach a decision on charges of counselling others to murder….
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/300597/a-hundred-years-on,-rua-kenana-raid-marked
A commemoration to mark 100 years since armed police raided Rua Kēnana's settlement in the heart of Te Urewera has sparked calls for the prophet to be pardoned.
On 2 April 1916, the pacifist prophet Rua Kēnana was arrested and his son Toko and Toko's uncle Te Maipi were shot dead during the police operation at Maungapōhatu
It's not clear who fired the first shot but the late historian Judith Binney said the evidence suggested it was the police.
Rua was later cleared of sedition charges but found morally guilty of resisting arrest. The jurors failed to reach a decision on charges of counselling others to murder….
www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/300597/a-hundred-years-on,-rua-kenana-raid-marked