Racial tensions boil over in New Zealand
A controversial bill regarding Maori people punctures its relative harmony
BARE-CHESTED MAORI warriors led 42,000 protesters to New Zealand’s parliament on November 19th. Some of the demonstrators, waving red, black and white Maori flags, had marched hundreds of miles to oppose a bill that would pare back their rights. The protest was one of the largest in support of Maori people. The bill, declared Jenny Shipley, a former conservative prime minister, is “inviting civil war”.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “A fight over rights”
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