Parihaka - an apology being given today by the National govt - three months from a general election...

Parihaka Invasion:

A genuine apology? You make up your own mind.

At 5am on November 5, 1881, 1,600 soldiers and policeman in the
 Armed Constabulary, led by Native Minister John Bryce, invaded the Māori settlement of Parihaka in central Taranaki. They were greeted not with armed resistance or hostility, but by singing children who carried baskets of food. The several thousand residents sat quietly on the papakaingā and offered no resistance to arrest. The Crown’s military force were welcomed to the community with open arms.

The peaceful welcome was not responded to in kind. The settlement was looted and destroyed and many women and children were raped by the colonial soldiers, a particularly horrible crime our kuia have held onto in oral histories. To this day, this crime has gone unacknowledged by the Crown. The men, were shipped away. Many of them never returned and some were buried in unmarked mass graves.

Read more:

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-06-2017/a-milestone-day-for-parihaka-and-for-the-long-march-to-justice-and-peace-in-aotearoa/?utm_source=The+Spinoff&utm_medium=CPE&utm_campaign=A+milestone+day+for+Parihaka+%E2%80%93+and+for+the+long+march+to+justice+and+peace+in+Aotearoa

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-06-2017/a-place-for-returning-injustice-legacy-and-reconciliation-at-parihaka/

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/332613/tears-as-crown-apologises-for-parihaka-atrocities

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-06-2017/a-place-for-returning-injustice-legacy-and-reconciliation-at-parihaka/