"Lest We Forget"

River

28 Apr 2025 — 1 min read

This was originally posted April 25th, 2024 on my previous blog. It has been re-posted here with minor changes.

"Lest we forget". We have forgotten.

New Zealand is just as much now as we were back then, a tool of the colonial war machine.

Thousands of us turn up in the streets to demand our government do something about the genocide currently happening in Palestine. Letters are being written to beg our MPs not to turn away refugees like we did during the Holocaust.

Our then-Prime Minister cried "get some guts" about deploying troops to Iraq, knowing he himself would never have to fight.

During the conflict in Afghanistan, our troops committed war crimes by injuring and killing innocent villagers, including children.

Our government imprisoned Māori who resisted being conscripted into fighting on behalf of the people who had invaded and stolen their land.

At best our ANZACs were just more victims of the war. At worst they were another violent occupying force.

We attempt to give meaning to wartime deaths, because the alternative is confronting the reality: that they died for nothing.

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