My letter to Bryan Crump after his latest failure--and his gracious replies. (Mar. 21, 2017)

My letter to Bryan Crump after his latest failure 
RNZ National, Tuesday 21 March 2017, 8:12 p.m. 

Another disgraceful joke of an interview by Bryan Crump this evening. A “military historian” called Damien Fenton spoke for 25 minutes about the Palestine-Sinai campaign in the Great War. He forgot, however, to mention something rather important. I sent the following letter to the sleepy host immediately the interview finished… 

Why no mention of the Surafend massacre by Damien Fenton? 
Dear Bryan, 

Your military historian Damien Fenton for some reason neglected to mention the cowardly and brutal massacre perpetrated by the Anzac Mounted Rifles, who in December 1918 rounded up more than one hundred boys and men in the Palestinian village of Surafend, then methodically clubbed them to death….. 
http://alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse/index.blog?topic_id=1115959 

That Damien Fenton chose to ignore this shameful episode, and that you did not see fit to bring it up, is especially ironic in light of ths afternoon’s revelation of another massacre of civilians in Afghanistan. 

Yours in concern at the standard of research and scholarship at RNZ, 

Morrissey Breen 
Northcote Point 

He replied soon after.....

Dear Morrissey,

Thanks for your email.

I doubt Damien would have ignored this deliberately.

More likely we ran out of time. There is more to be said about the NZers in Palestine.

But I will forward your email to him and read out his reply.

Thanks for listening.

Bryan

Nights

And again on the next day.....

Hi Morrissey,

I passed on your email to Damien.

He says he plans to discuss the massacre at Surafend at a later date (you might have noticed we’re following the events of the first world war a hundred years ago – the Surafend massacre occurred in 1918).

However, if you’d like to read what Damien has written about the affair, you might like to track down his book, . 'New Zealand and the First World War' which includes a special section dedicated to it.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for listening.

Bryan

Nights

Thanks very much Bryan. Keep up the good work.

Regards,

Morrissey Breen