Article – Socialist Equality Group Tom Peters On Tuesday, New Zealands Labour Party government released a 792-page report from the royal commission of inquiry into the March 15, 2019 Christchurch terror attack. Fifty-one people, including young children, were killed and dozens …
Tom Peters
On Tuesday, New Zealand’s Labour Party government released a 792-page report from the royal commission of inquiry into the March 15, 2019 Christchurch terror attack. Fifty-one people, including young children, were killed and dozens injured in mass shootings at two mosques by fascist terrorist Brenton Tarrant.
The inquiry was ostensibly set up to investigate what public sector agencies, including the police and spy agencies, knew about Tarrant’s activities prior to the attack, and whether it could have been prevented.
Tom Peters On Tuesday, New Zealand’s Labour Party government released a 792-page report from the royal commission of inquiry into the March 15, 2019 Christchurch terror attack. Fifty-one people, including young children, were killed and dozens .
“The individual told us,” the report continues, “that he began to think politically when he was about 12 and that his primary concerns have been about immigration, particularly by Muslim migrants into Western countries.”
The perpetrator was born in 1990. That means he was politicised in the immediate aftermath of the Tampa incident and 9/11, in the era when John Howard developed the so-called “Pacific Solution” and led Australia into the War on Terror.
Only two days after the attacks on the Twin Towers, defence minister Peter Reith warned Australians that refugee boats could be “a pipeline for terrorists”.
Not surprisingly, as Howard joined the war in Afghanistan, an academic survey of racism found a rapidly expanding Islamophobia in Australia, a sentiment that only intensified as the Iraq war began.
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