Friday 24 May 2019

The brutal and incompetent NZ “Defence” Force is coming under sustained fire. (May 25, 2019)

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The brutal and incompetent NZ “Defence” Force is coming under sustained fire.
There’s scarcely any doubt that, if they could, they would murder these brave truth-tellers.
….NZDF seems to believe it is entitled to hide news that might not be welcomed by New Zealanders and to bend the facts whenever necessary to avoid criticism or scrutiny:”
“This, I believe is the most important piece of context needed as preparation for this inquiry,” Hager said.
The organisation was obsessed with its public reputation.
“The NZDF’s reaction to Hit & Run in March 2017 is a clear example of the NZDF’s attitude to fact and truth.”
The claim by the NZDF that he and Stephenson had got the locations wrong in the book was later ditched.
“It tells us everything about the attitude of the organisation. They could have admitted that they accidentally killed and injured innocents at that point.”
Hager said the most glaring and morally offensive part of the NZDF narrative was that the dead and injured villagers were absent from it.
“The furthest it goes is suggesting ‘the possibility’ of civilian casualties’.”
Hager noted that the NZDF had supplied more than 1000 documents to the inquiry but he and Stephenson has received 14 so far.
He said the NZDF’s lawyer last week sent a memorandum to the inquiry on May 17 this year disputing the inquiry’s comparative analysis of public accounts of events during Operation Burnham.
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