Amnesty International responds to ‘Hit & Run’ release
Following the release of Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson’s book ‘Hit & Run’, Grant Bayldon Executive Director of Amnesty International…
Following the release of Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson’s book ‘Hit & Run’, Grant Bayldon Executive Director of Amnesty International…
The New Zealand Defence Force stands by the statement it made dated 20 April 2011. As the 2011 statement says,…
On Wednesday, 22nd of March, members of No Pride in Prisons will present a submission at parliament on the Children,…
New Zealand, your political, military and media class have lied to you about an atrocity and possible war crime that we have carried out and was signed off by the Prime Minister.
Author and investigative journalist Nicky Hager and war correspondent Jon Stephenson have teamed up, in a book released today, to…
Q+A with Nicky Hager on war crime allegations
The Human Rights Commission’s That’s Us anti-racism campaign has reached almost 2 million people (1.9 million) and engaged with more…
…remember the NZ Military and Government are still claiming nothing happened here and there doesn’t need to be an inquiry.
The shocking events described by Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson in Hit and Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the Meaning of Honour are not without precedent in the history of New Zealand’s military engagements overseas. In the tiny Palestinian village of Surafend, in the final days of 1918, New Zealand troops participated in what was indisputably a serious war crime. The parallels with the SAS “Revenge Raid” of August 2010 are striking.
In any case, whilst my affection for the Roy Morgan poll is well known, it is certainly not the only game in town. And the Reid Research material out the same day makes for some decidedly interesting comparison-work between the two analyses.