yes darby refugee camp. his life story may have ground to a halt. twenty seven years ago but there's no holding back his dreams. thank you for what. cinema just starts may twenty seventh on t.w. . march the fifteenth twenty nineteen. it was a dark day for new zealand fifty people were killed and fifty injured in twin shootings suddenly nothing seemed the same.

if. a. forty eight hour command was one of the survivors but he is surrounded by memories of his wife who is now who was not so lucky a month ago they visited the mosque together for friday prayers miraculously despite being will champ ound managed to escape through an emergency exit where he waited for his wife is hit to me mate. i have seen. in their home and.

the close. the sky fall on me. suddenly he was alone his sister in law and nieces and now helping him. left bangladesh for new zealand over thirty years ago he used to regard the country is the safest in the world but now he is full of anxiety and his fears go far beyond the attack itself. what if. muslim young person become. something with so i started thinking about the peace in security for across church for new zealand and for the rest of the war. christ church has three hundred fifty thousand

inhabitants it's the biggest city on new zealand south island but in many ways it has the air of a sleepy small town here people are proud of the country's colonial heritage school uniforms cricket and rugby friday the fifteenth of march looks set to be a day like any other the weekend was just around the corner. here in the heart of the city hagley park a huge municipal recreation ground and right next to it the al-noor mosque. shortly after one thirty pm called the people to friday prayers. at the same time a white car pulled up driven by a twenty eight year old australian dressed in military style camouflage he was filming himself streaming the video live to face book he was preparing to go to war

lying on the passenger seat and in the boot a number of weapons. other muslims in the al nor mosque at one forty pm he entered the prayer room. and. yes they go like that. here. so the washing of us stopped the gunman shot anyone who was unable to get away men women children at one forty one pm the police received the first emergency call out . police cars raced to the mosque. at first police officials didn't know exactly what

they were dealing with or how many people were involved but the gunman was alone. after killing forty two people he jumped back in his car and raced off eastwards the first ambulances got to the al nor mosque just before two pm. who tried to get a stretcher into the mosque but we couldn't because there were fatalities in the way we ended up having to. lift. the bodies over top of other bodies onto strictures there was no room. in there with those people bleeding and there's a lot of blood. christ church hospitals accident and emergency unit is just five minutes away many patients were critically injured some were fighting for their lives while they were being tended to the government arrived at lynnwood mosque in

the east of the city again opening fire without any warning. first of all abdul as e's thought that a firework had been. going on these guys tried to get. i'm chasing with a gun he said on his guard and i just got the gun in troy when they're like iraq and blast israel. probably your shot there was something in the guns come back in just to drive off. police arrived at lynnwood mosque shortly afterwards to find seven more victims the two seventeen pm they were finally able to arrest the far right extremist at gunpoint a witness filmed the scene with his mobile police are convinced that the gunman was on his way to a third location. he.

was praying helps give strength he wants to remain strong for his daughter's sake the baby on the photo is now fifteen years old. she was at school when the terror attack happened she said words were. susmit too crude. the most if you can see. telling me a do loop of mother to move.

we have. less than one percent of the population of new zealand are muslim by faith but the entire nation wept and grieved with them in part two for the country's lost innocence. for safety openness tolerance the attack has called all that into question. there is a sense of uncertainty mixed with the tears. by

actually immigrated from a different country when i was a kid and one of the reasons my parents brought me here was because it was so say. so it's hard to say something that is happening here but. yeah it's just as is it was pretty confronting for us here i hope we take a long hard look in the mirror. and rode up prices of it all its forms here because it doesn't have a place here this this isn't the new zealand that we thought we were. and i really hope that we that we do go forward from the us more unified as a nation against the sort of hatred. extremism research poll spoon lee has been much in demand since the christ church shootings for years now the sociologist has been observing how far right extremists have been steadily gaining influence worldwide he was surprised at most by the scale of the terror attacks here he says that new zealand had been a little bit too complacent. when you look at new

zealanders and their response to war editor towards immigrants it tends to be very positive sometimes twice and sometimes three times higher than you would find in most european countries and of course we don't have a lot of hate crime we do have hate speech but people are not are we are if they're generally so i think new zealanders have been naive and somehow we're exempt from what's been happening elsewhere in the world. in the days after the attacks new zealand's prime minister visited muslim communities in the country to express her condolences and offer her support she told them over and again you are. and just into arden wore a black head job as a mark of respect she set the tone in a country struggling to come to terms with the attacks. speak the names of those who were lost rather than the name of the man who took them. he may have

sought notoriety but we in new zealand will give him nothing not even his name as salaam aleikum. peace be upon you and peace be upon all of us. pupils from kashmir high school welcome the prime minister with the haka the traditional maori dance. ardor and wanted to show solidarity with the children who had lost two of their fellow students in the terror attacks. to some means making a place where these no environment for violence to flourish we don't leave racism exist because racism free extremism breeds some of the things we are fortunately have had visited upon new zealand and so this is my request i alone cannot get rid of those things by myself. i need help from fruit single one of us.

was born in somalia and says that women wearing head jobs have to put up with a lot in new zealand only now in the wake of the attacks she finally prepared to speak openly about this she says sometimes strangers come up to her in the street and call her a black terrorist or a jihadi bright haven't really fat until i wore the scarf and they fit when i really. knew that there is no racism in islamophobia i didn't know much english i had no idea the language was the language barrier but i knew there was a feeling of fear in me and i was quite scared as well because you know the comment for very negative i could feel so i couldn't put a word to work racism or islamophobia but i knew it was there. islamophobia exists in new zealand too it is just that no one has been prepared to say so up to now. now christ church is giving very conspicuous backing to its muslim population

by gangs have been standing guard outside mosques during friday prayers working hand in hand with the police many members of the gangs are maoris descendants of new zealand's indigenous peoples and like many muslims they have often felt like outsiders. who may have different beliefs but i want to make it clear that we live in a society where people think because we disagree we hate but i can disagree with somebody but that doesn't mean i hate them. and that's something that's that's gotten in the fabric of well society and that cause us. to need in three hundred fifty kilometers south of christ church is where the suspected attacker has lived since twenty seventeen that's when he moved from australia to new zealand apparently choosing to target. this small country with its multicultural society he

lives here in a small apartment attracting little attention and with little outside contact police raided his home shortly after the attack fearing that he might have set booby traps they used a special robot to enter the house at this point the suspect was attending his first court hearing he refused to say anything about his motives but a manifesto written by him further reveals the depth of his hatred for muslims whom here cuse is of wanting to displace the white race. extremism research poll spoon lee isn't surprised that the gunman wasn't on any security watch lists even though the australian hadn't made any secret about his far right views online he says there is a hardcore of two hundred to two hundred fifty far right extremists in new zealand who are prepared to carry out acts of violence but because the group seems fairly small the government has failed to take them seriously up till now. i think it's

the pressure that's come internationally for new zealand to buy international requirements to look at security and the interest in the. islamic terrorists treat as it was perceived those that think it's a failure of western societies and western governments that they really have not paid much attention or sufficient attention to the threat posed by the. body doesn't like to talk about far right extremists he prefers to view them as a few did range to members of society he says that he is wired by anti muslim prejudice but he also regards the outpouring of empathy in new zealand after the christchurch attacks with hope he doesn't plan to follow the trial against the alleged attacker he trusts that justice will be down. this wall. that all being in they want to stick to white. when they want to

forecast or. if they're going to. be doing the community looking after the sick people indeed it was so this is war you know what want they want just to get with. foreigners how difficult it can be tough a life twenty years ago a drunk driver ran him down doctors didn't write his chances of survival very highly now they're fifty six year old is trying to help those injured in the attack yes off from ethiopia and most are far from turkey tell us about their physical and mental wounds it is still not clear whether they will make full recovery as the woman. and shrapnel fragment as this on the mara. actually from

ethiopia long when we came here for safety our country is good but this is more safety and security so we never expect something like this it will never fly here heard or seen something like this but this first time and i still cannot believe the government has been ever strong scrutiny and to make sure they want to siphon noble. terrorist act again. well we can be sure it can happen again. and we can run away from. praying together to make sense of what happened for them that means believing that fight each wife and the other people killed and now in paradise. the fear

teaches us that if we push owns. it in front of our patients we will get the word from god as well so faith has the biggest hurdle for coping. in this kind of situation. this christ church community center is full of the work of sewing machines the women are busy making head scarves for the memorial event we carved to the attack they want to show their solidarity with muslim women who are afraid to walk the streets with their heads covered me and i can contribute something that i enjoy and i have no problem at all what i was wearing a headscarf myself and there are i think. of the movement head scarfs for harmony it includes police women students pensioners women across new zealand the country's embracing its muslim communities

never has the relationship been so demonstrably close. today we really did feel the support from everywhere. new zealand has been amazing and israel has been amazing and it's just just never given one by our side this is it truly means a lot to all of us. it's beautiful so thank you. a week after the shootings the call for friday prayers broadcast live on national t.v. and radio it's a symbol of solidarity that will be inconceivable in most other western countries. fifty victims the coffins of men women and children among them who is now ahmed. who. her husband fareed is touched by the response

to then he had only known many of his neighbors by sight now they embrace him he printed small cards thanking his neighbors for their support. they came running you know they were there in tears. that was wonderful support. an expression of. feeling that you know i should also take the opportunity to say to them that i also love the. muslims and non muslims coming together many for the first time talking together the encounters put prejudice to the test. a movement a lot about as well. of last few days and it's all really positive and crazy. to fight so. i had more of my i couldn't do that.

the country's prime minister wants to offer more than sympathy. just in the arden wants to tackle violence and racism first the country must look for the roots of these problems. today cabinet agreed the inquiry will be a royal commission it is important that no stone is left unto into the get to the bottom of how this act of terrorism a could and what if any opportunities we had to stop it. the bruce rifle club south of do need is now closed for the forseeable future but this range is where the suspected attacker who had a gun license trained regularly people the weapons that he used in the mass shootings at gun city the kind of supermarket for gun fans with branches throughout new zealand up to now the country's gun laws have been regarded as very liberal now the government wants to change that today i'm announcing that new zealand will been

all military style see me order medic weapons. we will also been all assault rifles. here on the edge of the southern alps we catch up with hunting legend davey hughes for many new zealanders hunting and shooting are what they associate with the great outdoors with freedom and a certain way of life there are hundreds of rifle and hunt clumps up to now and largely without incident but in recent years davey has noticed a trend and not just in new zealand towards semiautomatic firearms like the ones the gunman used. they can be reloaded very quickly and are potentially streaming dangerous. i think if you asked people do you really need a semiautomatic rifle generally the answer is not especially in new zealand

but do you want one a lot of people say yes i do want one i want one because i enjoy going out and shooting targets i enjoy pulling the trigger you know never dharmapala trigger the rifle actually goes off so i think it's just they're getting some sort of self-fulfillment toward enjoyment from actually shooting senor americans. davey himself is happy with a normal hunting rifle just under five million people live in new zealand and among them they own some one and a half million firearms the precise figures are known as up to now they didn't need to be registered and anyone with a gun license could buy as many weapons as they wanted the government wants to change all that the hunter except that but he expects opposition from other weapon owners they're concerned about. going to have the guns taken away from them or

their guns not just semiautomatics what rights are they still going to have and if they get really concerned about their i think they'll act if the government doesn't act that way. i think a lot of guns will go on the ground a lot of guns. over say the government is offering up to one hundred twenty million euros in total to buy back firearms. changing weapon laws is the first steps and. he is now spending a lot of time in wellington advising the government but the extremism researcher says more steps will be needed soon such as stricter laws against hate speech spoony sense that's the only way of getting to the root of discrimination against ethnic and faith mind.

i think we've got to put more emphasis on what's happening online we've got to understand that we have hate speech in this country we've got to record it and we've got to leave people know that it's happening i think part of the problem is that people just aren't aware of it apart from those who are being targeted. in the dark corners of the internet you can still find traces left by the suspected attacker on the online message board where he announced the attacks for example new zealand believes that here it's also up to the big internet concerns to take action the perpetrators live stream of events on facebook went undetected at first because it's algorithm was apparently unable to differentiate the images from those of a computer game. and so for hours the gunman got what he most wanted international attention for his acts of mass murder be. he could be

months before the suspects main trial opens. many of the relatives of the victims are hoping for a tough sentence. try to keep away we don't want to wear them we want to suffer here we want to be punished you know the punishment for the promise of the paper. it's three weeks after the attack. forty eight is returning to his mosque for the first time it still smells slightly a fresh paint there are no signs of the bullet marks. some people might find it hard to understand but fight he'd wanted to come back here at all costs even though he lost his wife here.

kid because again. in usually whom it is the place of security who means. priests peaceful place home means you know a. place with the love in here. the care of his community spite of what has happened forty eight has. his adopted home country the now. so it was a test that. the last play was i was a feeling peace love in my heart were was a feeling angry in. every didn't

or in the feeling of it to leave him so the lesson i have long. the no i was tested and i warned him that this. new zealand has lost its innocence paradise doesn't exist not even at the far end of the us in the days after the terror attack the country looked into the mirror and saw doc shutters bought new zealand has also responded by moving closer together in a way that hasn't been seen in any other nation.

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