Today I was reading about something like the Crown apologise for Parihaka and that what I was reading about.The Crown has officially apologised for the atrocities it committed when it sacked the peaceful Taranaki settlement of Parihaka in 1881.
Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson and Māori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell signed the reconciliation documents.
People openly wept as the apology was read out by Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson.
He apologised for the wrongful arrests and imprisonment of Parihaka men and their leaders Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi.
He said it was a shameful part of New Zealand’s history, which both Māori and Pākehā found hard talking about, for different reasons.
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