New Zealand apologises for 1970s ‘Dawn Raids’
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- Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, has formally apologised for police crackdowns in the 1970s that targeted the country’s Pacific communities.
Ardern on Sunday told a tearful crowd gathered at the Auckland town hall that her government was offering a formal and unreserved apology for the infamous “Dawn Raids”, during which police - often accompanied by dogs - raided homes to find overstayers who were then convicted and deported.
At the time of the raids, many people from the Pacific islands - including Samoa, Tonga and Fiji - had come to New Zealand on temporary visas to help fill a need for workers in the country’s factories and fields.
Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from Auckland, New Zealand.
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When will the US apologise to Native Americans for their genocide.?
When will Arabs
Apologize to the Iranians, Spanish, French, Indians and Portuguese?
they wont its too woke for them
They never will. Any government founded on slavery or genocide holds the power and only wants to benefit. Governments founded by colonisation only continue generational oppression, racism, and cause disparities for indigenous peoples.
A gentle answer relieves elation,
an insulting word stirs up anger.
All anyone ever really needs is to be acknowledged.
Often times, you’ll never find closure from anyone who’s ever harmed you; thus it’s something you often need to find for yourself..
Fft..
@@72marshflower15 Kaf For the poor will not be forgotten forever,
the hope of the oppressed will not perish forever.
@Said Nasereddin Taw Iniquity kills the wicked;
whoever hates the righteous will be punished.
Acknowledgement of a problem starts by admitting that there is/was a problem.
And ends there too I think.
@@meme4one It can, or it can end where people learn from it and build something better out of it.
@@Just4Kixs yes but it won't, sadly. People in power do what suits them at the time.
What problem are you referring to ? A government department upholding the laws of the land ?
@@stewatparkpark2933 it's whatever you imagine it to be in your wildest dreams, my dear. lol
The US needs to do this
Similar things happen right now with migrants who are separate from their families more than 2 years.
Luckily she didn't mention her father was a policeman involved in those raids....kept that quiet.
5minute Muslim a 5 minute Polynesian and a 5 second apologist.
What actions are taken to show you are sorry? To say you’re sorry is free, to show you’re sorry needs to come with a cost.
Sadface in some vidoes is all you're going to get.
Apologize for what. Wake up people and get with the program
NZ so woke it's amazing
good. if caring about people and equality is woke then that's fine call it what you like
@@thesquire6352 being woke has nothing to do with “caring” or “equality”, quite frankly the opposite. All has to do with how you look when it’s lights, camera, action. They only stand for minorities for their own political gain or if doesn’t affect their votes come election time.
Jacinda participated in an ancient Samoan ritual of forgiveness that’s no longer practised due its barbaric/violent nature. That ritual she did is only practised if you’re willing to die just to gain forgiveness from who you wronged. She made a mockery of it all because do you honestly think she was going to get hurt during the process? Absolutely not.
It’s all for her own political gain to get the approval from the Polynesian community.
@@cmac_415 So if she apologised without adhering to cultural custom would that be better?
From what i read she doesn't need to gain approval from polynesians because the national party do their best to bully and ostracize maori and polynesians that they vote labour anyway
@@thesquire6352 WHAT Equality?? LOL. She’s apologising for NZ holding up their immigration laws by deporting people who overstays their visa! What is wrong about that?
@@thesquire6352 she already apologised a couple of months ago yet she’s gone a step further when it’s clearly unnecessary. The national party doesn’t bully the maori and Pacific Islander people, that’s NZ leftist mainstream media bias for Jacinda. The Labour Party are the Democrats of NZ.
Britain owes reparation to colonial countries
But in Britain's point of view, those countries actually owe Britain because Britain came enlightening them, liberated them from darkness and backwardness. Don't you think?
Zimbabwe tried to get what its owed ,look ai it today
Danes and Italians owe England reparations then
@@kdzmatrrmat8068
This before or after they started killing the whites?
@@kdzmatrrmat8068 Yes but Zimbabwe is not an illegal state! Rhodesia illegally declared independence from Britain in 1965!!
She should apologize for separating people from their families with the unnecessary lockdowns.
I think it's important that we clarify the injustices that surrounded the Dawn Raids period. We ought to recognise that the raids were in line with immigration legislation. In fewer words, they were legal. The problem is not the legality (as some may tend to misconstrue the issue), but the policy that was being implied by the patterns of the law's enforcement. In comparison to other ethnic groups that sported a number of overstayers proportionate to Pasifikans, Pasifikan overstayers were more heavily pursued and prosecuted. We should mourn the fact that, while the law was being enforced (as it should be), it was not equally enforced across all sections of the population.
But that's not accurate. The raids and on-street inspections were conducted with ILLEGAL violence and invasions of privacy and breached NZ civil Liberty laws.
The enforcement of immigration laws was ILLEGAL by applying them unequally on racial bias and as NZ was a signatory to the UN Charter of Human Rights aspects of the law were in breach of higher International law.
In defense of 1 law, they broke numerous higher laws.
@@sisyphusvasilias3943, the police are allowed to use reasonable force to subdue a suspect. They are also entitled to ask for identification if there is good reason to suspect the commission of, or conspiracy to commit, a crime. And so long as they are granted a warrant by the relevant authority, they are allowed to enter private premises.
As for your claim concerning international "law", it is not a system of law in and of itself, but rather a set of conventions and customs to which member states grant assent. In order for international convention to become binding on a country, it must be ratified by the State in the form of legislation that has been passed. The highest law within a country is its constitution, which empowers the government to create legislation for the administration of the state.
maybe you shouldn't overstay your legal welcome
It wasn't about targeting overstayers. It was about targeting the polynesian community in the dawn raids when the ethnicity that made up the majority of overstayers was white but they got given a free pass and a sleep in while innocent families were harassed at 4 am because they were brown
Proverbs 29:2
King James Version
2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
@Franc HohenzollernI am super elated and incredibly enthusiastic.
Psalm 149:5-7
5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
I WROTE A COMMENT WHY WAS IT REMOVED ?? IT WAS COMMENT 277 AND IT IS NOT THERE WHY ??
🙌🙌👍👍What about racists Australia 😡😡😡
I'm indigenous English.
The same things are happening to us here in england.
London is almost completly taken over now, not many of us left in our ancient ancestral capital city.
well you lot voted your dismal government in who implemented policies that allow non-english people to invade your shores dont moan vote your crappy self-serving government out
Wow! Sounds exactly like what you guys did to New Zealand. Are you going to apologise?
Yet she stood with Australia when Australian war crimes in Afghanistan were exposed.
except those claims are not proved
@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 Come on. They even punished some low-level rank-and-file. Have you just arrived from the Moon 🌙?
Good on her!! It takes a GREAT LEADER who admits when they got things wrong. It takes an even better person who is willing to CHANGE the way their Govt treats their citizens!! Well done Jacinda Arden!!
She’s not willing to do anything, there has been lobbying, petitions signed by Polynesian leaders and communities to help those illegal immigrants in New Zealand right now to receive amnesty/citizenship for years now. This apology is nothing but rubbish to gain more voters next election. She’ll go back to her desk at work and continue on sending illegal immigrants back to their countries.
@@Davey1522 What a load of bullshit she's only just apologised ya clown... Where's your links to prove she's not willing to do anything?? You expect her to fix things straight away, you're dreaming if you expect that right now!! Especially, when she has everything else to deal with!! Wait ur turn!!
@@MrKiwiboii are you serious? She’s been handed these petitions for the last couple of years now, but yet when she locked down the borders for the first time in 2020 she was still sending illegal immigrants back home behind our backs, and still is today. I know she’s just apologised you fool, but they are just empty words, we need to see action! We as New Zealanders all knew that the Pacific community has been wanting change for years, wake up! I don’t need links to show you, her being quiet on it for years speaks for itself, now she just offers an apology just to ‘right wrongs’
this was 50yrs ago barely anyone alive today who had anything to do with it, just another way for her to gain votes...wake up...these people were here illegally but once again a whole bunch of people apologize for something those currently in power had nothing to do with...ridiculous and the quicker she is booted out the better!
@@muzz-nz1446 Really?? You are going to tell me that they were ILLEGALLY?? Oh, please, how about YOU WAKE UP!! Unless you are of Maori descent it is also YOU and your ancestors who are ALSO here ILLEGALLY!! Maori didn't invite Europeans here, did they?? NO, they didn't!! So, take YOUR 'WHITE PRIVILEGE IGNORANCE elsewhere!!
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Good
Leadership is everything…. owning past corruption and being unafraid to state the obvious is what leadership and trust is admirable. This lady is an example to the world.
What planet are you on>?
@@richardnixon4345 a corrupt US politician is your hero? LOL
@X X says The only protection you got from China colonizing N.Z. is the U.S.
REPLY: HAHAHA You must be a yank...advice...turn off US MSM with its Anti-China rhetoric. Unlike Australia we dont smooch up on the USA's AHOLE :)
@X X says he only protection you got from China colonizing N.Z. is the U.S.
REPLY: How many Military bases does China have outside of China? How does the US have...who is the bigger military threat again? LOL
@X X says it's just a matter of time.
REPLY: LOLOL The US is a bigger threat to world peace than China moron LOL
Talk is cheap.
2.1 Million towards Pasifika scholarships....
@@moefiki9901 lol. How generous! That is the price of a single home in NZ. At least we know now NZ is as racist and discriminatory as her larger neighbour, Australia. And are these scholarships' sole purpose to extract talents from these island in an act of deliberate brain drain?
If not for Chinese influence these pacific people don’t have a voice for centuries!
Now Europeans are apologizing left right and center to Africans and all over out of fear they may call for justice as they unite in power through China!
Lol, best laugh I've had in a while. Kia ora
Thank you maam
Aunt Cindy getting cheap woke points.
Yeah , she's an absolute disgrace .
shut up.
As alleys
Woke, how is it woke?
Yet EVERY member of NZ parliament VOTED to support this action.
Do you feel that words can erase years of suffering.
That's not the point at all. Having a government publicly take full responsibility is a big deal, and a good start. 👍🏼
@@boondocksdragon8959 What a joke.
@@MrMiggoH it's not a joke to the indigenous peoples who've had to suffer through it.
They were given a free plane ride back to their homelands .
Its a start.
Too litte and too late.
@Said Nasereddin like the mobster who says: shot first, talk after.
@Said Nasereddin indeed. It's all done for the sake of covet and grab.
I have experienced white privilege all my life in the US... It's always been obvious to me. I never asked for it, but it was heaped upon me anyway.
It's one of the reasons I felt it was necessary to pay back what I've been given by serving in the military.
But all the military does is spread evil, you think the US military is honorable?
Rothschild caused the atrocities.
So you go fight for rothschild controlled army.
Rofl
That is some really bizarre logic you have there. I am so white and privileged I will join an institution that inflicts fear, control, political power and death upon non white countries.....
I think its nice youre self aware but sanctimonious thst you joined an imperialistic militant institution
@@lapinchechismosa That dude is trolling.
lies
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Great example for other countries and leaders.
Which bit, a sad face during some videos or lack of actual action?
Sickening virtue signaling actually .
Example in what? Deporting coloured people after using them for cheap labour?
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1:29 otara hehe
St Jacinda, wrapping herself in victimhood
Yeah , sickening .
Since when do Victims apologize?
@@theminiification wrapping herself in the victimhood of others....what a fraud
This woman is "apologizing" for NZ removing illegal immigrants during a time when all of their work had died down. The embarrassment of this woman.
Let's not forget every white person that doesn't have maori blood are overstayers as well also kiwi is reo Māori word
@@siiamdaniel5689 I'm maori myself and I absolutely reject that separatist ideology. Absolutely.
They weren’t removing all (ie, Americans and Europeans who were the majority of overstayers), just some. Policies shouldn’t be applied selectively, they should apply to all or none.
@@mandyellis876 that's because Americans and Europeans weren't working the factory jobs that were being shut down or relocated.
What's it like being so isolated and contray to Kiwiness and the values and characters of New Zealand and NZers (if you are a NZ)
Clearly you are ignorant which might suggest you may be under-educated or otherwise under supported the community so I want judge you as a negative person (or at all)
but if you do see yourself as a "proud kiwi" you must be experience degrees of social friction and conflict but holding such views that go against Kiwi values.
Maybe take time to consider why you are isolating yourself from Kiwiness and Kiwi society.
This is how healing starts. Acknowledgment, responsibility, listening and apology through changed behavior. Well done New Zealand 🇳🇿👏🏻 what an inspiration to us in 🇿🇦
Is too late,judgment has been set your apologies are null and void,the Most High is visiting the earth,the time of the Gentiles is up!
Polynesians were chased to the Pacific along the Silk Road to China - From Samaria,
old Kingdom, after Judah gave up on us.
Theirs only one escape route, and its not to Europe, it goes straight to China and the Pacific coast.
APTTMH 🙏🏿🙏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
@@SW60845 No, only i know this information, the only other who knows this are the Freemasons.
Is Jacinda ashamed to be white 🤔
definitely
If you are associating being white with being racist .. probs.
Soon , speaking English in NZ will be illegal
@@richardnixon4345 dont be ridiculous.
@@richardnixon4345 don't worry natives will never do that they are not racist like you. They will never do that that you're people did that to them.
And English is a very usefull language for contacting the world.
So don't afraid
Oh Western Fascism you all look alike
This is literally a Democratic act to atone for a fascistic act.
A terrible time in the History of my country however we are proud in the knowledge that Aotearoa - New Zealand has the largest Polynesian/Pacific Island peoples population in the world, Also a little history the Black Panther Movement after a time devolved into clicks that later became Street Gangs not all of them though most of the people involved had pure motives but as with any organisation motivations change just like people.
Ogg Great. Now will Qatar apologies to poor Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrants workers who died during the preparation of Football world cup stadiums?
Good
You don't have any knowledge to talk about this, just repeating false accusation without any base. Thousands of people are working and supporting their families back home. Their embassies are monitoring beside international organizations.
Apologising for a government department upholding the immigration laws of the land .
Yeah but only to Pacific peoples, the majority of the over stayers were from the US n UK and they were not targeted or dawn raided. So you all good with that ?
They shouldn't apologize because it wasn't them who did it. This happened 50 years ago and was done under a different administration. It's not like guilt is passed on.
It is, if you fail to acknowledge the wrongdoing.
Injustice by the crown is passed on. How do you think waitangi tribunal works
if it was you or any one you love you wouldn't say that.
Literally all of these "apologies" are only done to gain some good guy points in the media.
@@xandervk2371 It simply isn't. You are only responsible for things that you have done. This is just politicians seeking approval.
I admire Mrs. Jacinda. Ma'am, you're an amazing leader. I wish the world had more leaders like you. Hats off dear Ma'am
The truth will be revealed at the next election .
New Zealand will be weak with her leadership. She’s so soft it’s just pathetic!
@@charlesoflyon6578 be a good person doesn't mean you weak.
You're cheap mentality is weak.
@@stewatparkpark2933 yeah you people don't like a leader who is good for minority's.
Are scared that you'll got extinct In NZ 😂😂
yeah great admiring a free mason sponsored criminal
These Settlers have a lot to b sorry For.
Appologis r good but not enough
Folks, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for our sins.
He was buried and resurrected on the third day.
Believe in Him to be saved.
There's only One God, who has no son or mother. The Creator of Jesus and His Mother and all that exists
What has Christianity got to do with the marginalisation/forced deportation of pacific islanders?
Romans 9:13
[13]As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.