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Forty-five years after his parents were wrongfully imprisoned for overstaying, a Tongan New Zealander finally admits the painful truth behind what really happened to his family during the Dawn Raids. ....
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Photo: Screenshot Tesimoni Fuavao and his father moved to New Zealand in May 1975 through a medical visa, as Fuavao needed to undergo medical treatment. He was 19-years-old. His mother and the youngest of six siblings came soon after on the same medical grounds, while Fuavao s other siblings stayed back in Tonga with their grandparents. They lived in a five-bedroom house in Grey Lynn, Auckland with three families from the Tongan community who were New Zealand residents. Fuavao had his operation and was in hospital for two weeks. I continued to received outpatient care, he said. Because of the ongoing treatment, my understanding is that our medical visas kept getting extended by the lawyer on the advice of a doctor. ....
When his own son was invited to join the police force, he couldn’t bear it. “If you go and be a policeman you are not my son,” he said at the time. But he wants that anger to stop. That’s why he came forward to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State Care, which is this month tackling the Pacific experience of abuse. For 66-year-old Fuavao, the best way to overcome the past was to confront it. And to avoid backing out on the day, he agreed to film an interview with the commission. He sat in the witness seat at Fale o Samoa (Samoa House) in Māngere, South Auckland, while the video was played. ....
Dawn Raid Testimony of Tesimoni Fuavao We didn t get to say goodbye to my parents. My little brother Masiu and I were left at the house with the other Tongan families living there. Masiu was only 6 years old. The officers didn t care about what would happen to Masiu and I. They just took our parents and left. We were very confused about everything and didn t know what to do. We just wanted to be with our parents. Masiu was crying. I was angry, and I didn t know how to care for him because I was still sick myself. We didn t have any money. The neighbours fed us. - Tesimoni Fuavao in his testimony. ....