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Two consecutive mass shootings took place in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 15 March 2019.They were committed by a single perpetrator during Friday prayer, first at the Al Noor Mosque in Riccarton, at 1:40 p.m. and almost immediately afterwards at the Linwood Islamic Centre at 1:52 p.m. Altogether, 51 people were killed and 89 others were injured; including 40 by gunfire.
[19] [20] Politicians and world leaders condemned it, [21] and then-Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern described it as "one of New Zealand's darkest days". [22] The government established a royal commission into its security agencies in the wake of the shootings, which were the deadliest in modern New Zealand history and the worst ...
The Moriori genocide was the systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing, enslavement and cultural annihilation of the Moriori people, the indigenous ethnic group of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu), by invaders from the mainland New Zealand iwi of Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga, from November 1835 for a disputed time onward. Siege of Pukerangiora [20]
YouTube has struggled to keep video of the New Zealand mosque shooting off its platform, with Neil Mohan, chief product officer of the world’s biggest video hub, telling The Washington Post on ...
Video footage widely circulated on social media, apparently taken by a gunman and posted online live as the attack unfolded, showed him driving to one mosque, entering it and shooting randomly at ...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — The Latest on the mosque shootings in New Zealand (all times local):
The Queen v Brenton Harrison Tarrant [2020] NZHC 2192 was a New Zealand sentencing case regarding Brenton Tarrant's involvement in the Christchurch mosque shootings after his guilty plea. It culminated in the first-ever life imprisonment without the possibility of parole sentence in New Zealand history.
New Zealand is also less experienced in dealing with cultural needs of Muslims, who make up only about 1% of the population. Criticism mounts of New Zealand mosque shooting response Skip to main ...