Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 26, 2019 5:46:45 GMT 12
PASSING OF PARIHAKA RECONCILLIATION BILL AS POLITICALLY, SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT AS IT GETS
Finally the Crown has apologised for the turning loose of armed police and soldiers on the pacifist population of Parihaka in 1881. The circumstances of the Taranaki attack and the years of military occupation, rape and wanton destruction that followed is a dark period in our colonial history. The eventual breaking of the settlement's leadership in confinement in the South Island makes for grim reading......