The prime minister has spoken at Cashmere high school, which lost two students and a former student in Friday’s massacre
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Some see looming ecological collapse as an opportunity to re-order society along their preferred, frankly genocidal, lines
In his shoddy manifesto, the accused shooter in Christchurch identified as an “eco-fascist”.
Over the weekend Kellyanne Conway seized on the term – which is unfamiliar to many – to lump him in with so-called “eco-terrorists”, saying “He’s not a conservative. He’s not a Nazi.” No doubt she was banking on common understandings of contemporary environmentalism to draw a link to the political left.
Continue reading...New Zealand's prime minister has said she will never speak the name of the Christchurch attack suspect, and urged the public to remember the victims’ names instead. Addressing parliament for the first time since Friday’s attack, Jacinda Ardern said the accused would face 'the full force of the law'
• Ardern says she will never speak name of Christchurch suspect
Continue reading...MPs in New Zealand's parliament have paid tribute to the victims of the Christchurch terror attacks this afternoon, opening the day's session with a Muslim prayer
Continue reading...After Christchurch many are asking what role the ‘darkest reaches of the internet’ play in radicalisation
No depth goes unplumbed on the far-right forum 8chan. Its threads reveal a seething, toxic mass of rabid antisemitism, neo-Nazism, Islamophobia, gratuitous violence, coded inside jokes and conspiratorial ravings published by anonymous users.
Nothing has changed in the days after the Australian alleged gunman Brenton Tarrant, 28, came to 8chan boasting of the imminent massacre in Christchurch. Posts have since praised Tarrant as a “hero” and called for copycat attacks, or, alternatively, denounced him as a pawn in a false flag conspiracy.
Continue reading...Prime minister says she will do everything she can to avoid attracting attention to Christchurch attack accused
Jacinda Ardern has vowed never to speak the name of the alleged Christchurch gunman, promising to do everything in her power to avoid creating notoriety around the attack in which 50 people have died.
Asked if she would like the trial to occur behind closed doors, New Zealand’s prime minister said that was not her decision to make. “One thing I can assure you – you won’t hear me speak his name,” she said.
Continue reading...When someone makes an inappropriate joke, or when a senator makes incendiary remarks, speak up
When I walked into work on Monday I told myself I was going to be strong. Then an Indigenous colleague pulled me aside and hugged me and I crumbled in her arms. She told me that the Indigenous community was so sorry for what has happened to our community, and we talked and cried. I, like many other Muslims, have felt the pain of the Christchurch mosque massacre so viscerally.
I was so shaken that I did not step out at all over the weekend.
Continue reading...Officials in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria examine Brenton Tarrant’s travels before attack
Authorities in Europe are working to establish whether the man suspected of carrying out the most deadly terrorist attack in New Zealand’s history had any links to far-right groups on the continent.
Since Friday, officials in Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece have begun formal investigations into the alleged gunman’s extensive travel through Europe in the years before he moved to New Zealand.
Continue reading...Students from various schools paid tribute to two of their peers who died in the Christchurch shooting by performing a haka, a ceremonial Maori dance to mourn the victims and honour the dead. They were joined by scores of fellow students to form a deafening chorus. At least 50 people were killed in the attack, which was the worst mass killing in New Zealand's history.
Continue reading...The owner of Gun City, David Tipple, has said his shop sold the alleged Christchurch gunman four category A firearms and ammunition, after police verified the online mail-order process. It is still unknown where the alleged assailant obtained the semi-automatic weapon reportedly used in the attack
Continue reading...Foreign ministry says Anning’s statement shows lack of understanding about Islam
The Indonesian foreign ministry has summoned the Australian ambassador in Jakarta to express strong condemnation of Australian senator Fraser’s Anning’s controversial response to the Christchurch massacre.
In a meeting in the Indonesian capital on Monday, the Indonesian foreign affairs minister, Retno Marsudi, told Australia’s ambassador to Indonesia, Gary Quinlan, that Indonesia strongly denounced the Queensland senator’s comments.
Continue reading...The White House pushed back on Sunday against any attempt to link Donald Trump to the accused gunman who killed 50 people in two New Zealand mosques, saying the act of a disturbed individual cannot be blamed on any one politician.
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Continue reading...At least 50 died after gunman opened fire during Friday prayers at two mosques in Christchurch
Fifty people have been confirmed killed, and 50 injured, in Friday’s terrorist attack on two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. As of Saturday night, 36 people remained in hospital.
New Zealand police have not yet issued any public identification of any victims of attack.
Continue reading...Members of a New Zealand biker gang have performed the haka to honour the victims of the mass shootings in Christchurch. Before doing so, the gang's spokesperson thanked the New Zealand police for their work. Mosques in New Zealand have been inundated with floral tributes and messages of support after the massacre, in which 50 people were killed
Continue reading...Abdul Aziz, 48, is being hailed a hero for preventing more deaths at the Linwood mosque. Aziz says he chased the shooter away from the mosque. He then picked up a gun left by the shooter and threw it into his car as he drove away. The gunman killed 49 people after attacking two mosques in the deadliest mass shooting in New Zealand’s history. Seven people were killed at the Linwood mosque
Continue reading...New Zealand prime minister says document did not contain location or details on the shootings
The alleged Christchurch mosque shooter sent a “manifesto” to the office of New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern minutes before the terrorist attack that left 50 people dead, she has said.
Her office was among more than 30 New Zealand parliamentary email addresses that received the document on Friday.
Continue reading...Abdul Aziz hailed a hero for using a credit card scanning machine and the gunman’s spent weapon as he confronted the attacker
A worshipper at the site of the second Christchurch mosque attack has spoken of how he chased away the gunman armed only with a credit card machine.
Abdul Aziz, who was born in Afghanistan, was inside the Linwood mosque with four of his children for Friday prayers when someone shouted that a gunman had opened fire.
Continue reading...The suspect’s live broadcast of the New Zealand killings reveals such acts are always as much about instilling fear as inflicting violence
Terrorism is effective because it always seems near. It always seems new. And it always seems personal. Ever since the first wave of terrorist violence broke across the newly industrialised cities of the west in the late 19th century this has been true.
It feels personal because, although statistics may show we are many times more likely to die in a banal domestic accident, we instinctively conclude from an attack on the other side of the street, the city or, in the case of New Zealand, the other side of the world, we might be next.
Continue reading...Any 28-year-old has grown up in a time when racism was ratcheting up in the public culture
The worst terror attack in New Zealand’s modern history took place on Friday, and the alleged perpetrator is an Australian.
Appropriately, this calamity has started a process of deep reflection in the man’s home country. Everywhere, decent Australians are asking, how did we get here? Do we own him?
There has been extensive, international discussion about the role of the online subculture of the far right in these events – the codes, memes and signals of internet-mediated white supremacy.
Related: To prevent another Christchurch we must confront the right’s hate preachers | Jonathan Freedland
Continue reading...Death toll from shooting at two mosques rises to 50, with 50 people injured
Hi, and welcome to our ongoing coverage of the fallout from Friday’s mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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