1881 … Crown troops invaded … Parihaka and decimated the village.
1864, Crown troops set fire to a whare karakia (church) in Rangiaowhia during morning prayer, incinerating non-combatants, including tamariki (children) and kaumātua (elders).
Smokey Ardisson Without diminishing the significance of those brutal (and presumably uncalled for) attacks, and the latent racism that is now becoming overt…if one has to go back over a century to find prior cases of terrorism (and only comes up with 2 instances), then it seems like your society has a pretty good claim to “this is not who we are”, at least on a comparative basis. (The problem of whitewashing history in settler colonies is not confined to NZ, of course, and aside from perhaps South Africa, none of us have yet done a great job of reckoning with it….)