Posted on August 2, 2021
Jack Newman, Daily Mail, August 1, 2021
Jacinda Ardern has formally apologised to a tearful Pacific Island community for New Zealand’s ‘racist’ 1970s Dawn Raids which saw islanders targeted for deportation in a series of aggressive police crackdowns.
The prime minister was draped with a large white mat and embraced during the emotional ceremony in Auckland in the traditional ritual known as an ifoga.
It sees the subject seeking forgiveness by exposing themselves to public humiliation.
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern formally apologised to Pacific communities for the racially targeted “Dawn Raids” that took place in the 1970s pic.twitter.com/iqFmcPrw7f
Jacinda Ardern covered by a mat in apology for New Zealand s Dawn Raids targeting Pacific Islanders
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