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Leading Tuhoe activist and campaigner Tame Iti (right) was among the 17 arrested, as police swept Maori sovereignty, peace and environmental activist groups. Tuhoe people accused the police of terrorising an entire community with heavily armed raids and by boarding school buses. The Tuhoe tribe never signed the Treaty of Waitangi and has a long history of resistance for their tangata whenua rights against colonial and state rule. The police raids follow international pressures for New Zealand to adhere to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. New Zealand was one of four countries that voted against the UN Declaration, along with the US, Canada and Australia. Mainstream media have been accused of being one-sided.
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A Defend Civil Rights website has been established.
Auckland protest photo by Joe Barratt.
Auckland protest photo by Joe Barratt.
- Scoop report and pictures - Hundreds march for 'terror' accused
- Police fail to account for all 17 accused
- This average Kiwi bloke has had enough - Aziz Choudry
- Maori protest anti-terror raids
- Tame Iti among 17 arrests - Censored and under-reported news
- Video: Tuhoe - history of resistance
- Rua - Tuhoe prophet
- Civil Rights Defence resource website