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March 31, 2019
The Imam of the Al Noor Mosque, Gamal Fouda speaking to Christchurch, New Zealand, and the watching world. He says despite the terrorist’s intentions, New Zealand remains “unbreakable”. Video: TRT World Now COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose of RNZ Mediawatch The speech by Imam Gamal Fouda of Al Noor mosque delivered just a week after the ... <a title="Mediawatch: Reporting Islam before and after 15/3" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/31/mediawatch-reporting-islam-before-and-after-15-3/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Reporting Islam before and after 15/3">Read more</a>
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March 29, 2019
Fifty Kowhai Intermediate School children sing the waiata at the remembrance service in Eden Park rugby stadium in Auckland today. Video: Del Abcede/PMC By Amy Williams and of Brooke Jenner of RNZ News All Black Sonny Bill Williams has challenged hundreds of people at Auckland’s memorial service for those who died in the Christchurch mosque ... <a title="Mosque atrocity remembrance service calls for ‘love, solidarity’ to continue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/29/mosque-atrocity-remembrance-service-calls-for-love-solidarity-to-continue/" aria-label="Read more about Mosque atrocity remembrance service calls for ‘love, solidarity’ to continue">Read more</a>
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March 29, 2019
By Jeremy Rose of RNZ Mediawatch In 2017, the New Zealand media featured 14,349 stories that included the word Islam – nearly 13,000 of those stories mentioned either terrorism or Islamic Jihad. The stats are from an academic article in Pacific Journalism Review by Auckland University of Technology’s senior lecturer and Pacific Media Centre board ... <a title="‘Misconceived hatred’ gives way to Muslim voices finally being heard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/29/misconceived-hatred-gives-way-to-muslim-voices-finally-being-heard/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Misconceived hatred’ gives way to Muslim voices finally being heard">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2019
A West Papua Liberation Army unit in the Nduga regency, Papua, earlier this month. Image: RNZ file By RNZ Pacific New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, has called for an end to violence in Indonesia’s Papua province. Peters was responding to a letter from a representative of the West Papua Liberation Army, which is waging ... <a title="Violence in Papua must end before talks, says NZ Foreign Minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/27/violence-in-papua-must-end-before-talks-says-nz-foreign-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Violence in Papua must end before talks, says NZ Foreign Minister">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2019
Black Sheep … an RNZ special on white supremacy. Image: RNZ COMMENTARY: By William Ray Since the mosque attacks in Christchurch earlier this month, many people have called for New Zealand to examine its history of white supremacy. In this special episode of RNZ’s Black Sheep, William Ray looks at the origins of this ideology, ... <a title="Black Sheep: NZ’s story of white supremacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/26/black-sheep-nzs-story-of-white-supremacy/" aria-label="Read more about Black Sheep: NZ’s story of white supremacy">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2019
OPINION: By Dr Paul G Buchanan The terrorist attack on two Christchurch mosques this month is a watershed moment in New Zealand history. In the days, months and years ahead much soul-searching will be conducted about the social and political factors that contributed to the massacre of 50 people. Here we shall focus on two: ... <a title="Paul Buchanan: Soul-searching NZ must ‘own’ this terrorist attack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/24/paul-buchanan-soul-searching-nz-must-own-this-terrorist-attack/" aria-label="Read more about Paul Buchanan: Soul-searching NZ must ‘own’ this terrorist attack">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2019
Police guarding the AUT Masjid today added their tribute to the flowers at the entrance to the prayer room in central Auckland. Image: David Robie/PMC By RNZ News New Zealand today observed the Muslim call to prayer and two minutes of silence in Christchurch and across the country, one week after terror attacks that killed ... <a title="NZ marks call to prayer, two-minute silence to honour mosque dead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/22/nz-marks-call-to-prayer-two-minute-silence-to-honour-mosque-dead/" aria-label="Read more about NZ marks call to prayer, two-minute silence to honour mosque dead">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2019
Armed police bedecked with flowers amid heightened national security following the Christchurch mosque attacks last Friday. Traditionazlly, New Zealand police are unarmed. Image: Sulzy/Twitter By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today announced a New Zealand ban on all military-style semi-automatic weapons and all assault rifles She pledged the day after the terrorist massacre in ... <a title="NZ bans military-style semi-automatic weapons and all assault rifles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/21/nz-bans-military-style-semi-automatic-weapons-and-all-assault-rifles/" aria-label="Read more about NZ bans military-style semi-automatic weapons and all assault rifles">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2019
By RNZ News As the police worked to release victims’ bodies to families by tonight, the first were buried this afternoon. Father and son, 44-year-old Khaled Mustafa and 15-year-old Hamza, were laid to rest in a Janaza service at Memorial Park Cemetery in Linwood. The service started at 12.30pm when the bodies arrived by hearse. ... <a title="Christchurch terror shooting: First victims buried, calls for unity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/21/christchurch-terror-shooting-first-victims-buried-calls-for-unity/" aria-label="Read more about Christchurch terror shooting: First victims buried, calls for unity">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2019
Police Commissioner Mike Bush … suspect was apprehended on the way to another target. Image: Rebekah Parsons-King/RNZ By RNZ Police Commissioner Mike Bush says police knew where the suspect from the Christchurch mosque attacks was going after the New Zealand shootings and intervened. During a media conference today, Bush gave further details of the police ... <a title="Gunman arrested ‘within 21 minutes’ and saved lives, says police chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/20/gunman-arrested-within-21-minutes-and-saved-lives-says-police-chief/" aria-label="Read more about Gunman arrested ‘within 21 minutes’ and saved lives, says police chief">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2019
“Massacre shame of Facebook” banner headline in the London Daily Mail at the weekend. Image: PMC screenshot By RNZ More than 50 New Zealand companies are considering pulling ads from Facebook because it allowed a livestream of the Christchurch massacre last Friday. Some firms have already stopped advertising and the Association of New Zealand Advertisers ... <a title="Christchurch terror attacks: NZ advertisers to pull social media ads" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/19/christchurch-terror-attacks-nz-advertisers-to-pull-social-media-ads/" aria-label="Read more about Christchurch terror attacks: NZ advertisers to pull social media ads">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2019
Zaed Mustafa’s father and brother were killed during the Christchurch terror attacks. Image: Diego Opatowski/RNZ By Katy Gosset of RNZ A Syrian-born woman whose husband and son were killed in Friday’s terror attacks says her family was told New Zealand was the safest country in the world. For Salwa Mustafa, a slim woman in a ... <a title="NZ ‘chose us to come here … to die here’, says grieving Syrian mother" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/18/nz-chose-us-to-come-here-to-die-here-says-grieving-syrian-mother/" aria-label="Read more about NZ ‘chose us to come here … to die here’, says grieving Syrian mother">Read more</a>
