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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 3, 2019 16:50:28 GMT 12
CROWN SHOULD APOLOGISE TO MĀORI BEATEN AS CHILDREN FOR TE REO, SAYS DOVER SAMUELSFormer Labour government minister Dover Samuels is calling on the Crown to apologise to a generation of Māori beaten for speaking te reo at school. Mr Samuels lodged a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal in 2015 over the cruelty shown to children strapped and whipped for speaking their own language. But he worries that he and the other children abused in that way are now in their 80s and will be dead before the Tribunal comes back with its findings. The former Labour politician has appealed to the Minister for Māori Crown Relations Kelvin Davis to take up his call for a formal apology before it's too late..... www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/398038/crown-should-apologise-to-maori-beaten-as-children-for-te-reo-says-dover-samuels
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