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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 25, 2019 16:07:45 GMT 12
APOLOGY FOR CROWN INVASION OF PARIHAKA PASSES INTO LAWA Crown apology for the invasion of Parihaka and the imprisonment of its people has passed into law. The law, which formalises an apology first given in 2017, comes nearly 138 years after Crown troops surrounded the south Taranaki pacifist settlement. About 1600 armed constables and volunteers raided the community and evicted Māori who had gathered to resist the Crown. Women were raped, heirlooms stolen, and farms destroyed. The Crown arrested the group's prophets, Tohu Kākahi and Te Whiti ō Rongomai, who were held without trial for more than a year in the South Island...... www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/116882065/apology-for-crown-invasion-of-parihaka-passes-into-law
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