Advice given to Wellington Mayor regarding memorial lights not to be displayed for Shareen Abu Akleh.
Lance D. Lavery made this Official Information request to Nanaia Mahuta
The request was refused by Nanaia Mahuta.
From: Lance D. Lavery
Tēnā koe Nanaia Mahuta,
As Minister of Foreign affairs and therefore acting Principal, why did you or your agent/s advise the Mayor of Wellington Andrew Forster not to allow memorial lights to be lit up on the Michael Fowler Centre for Shareen Abu Akleh?
Of all Ministers in Parliament you should know very well the negative impacts of oppression and occupation. Your own Tainui people historically, have suffered due to these inhumane and barbaric practices.
In closing I leave you with some quotes and a whakatauki to consider.
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Bishop Desmond Tutu.
"Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely." - Sir Winston Churchill.
“Ki te kahore he whakakitenga ka ngaro te iwi” - Kingi Tāwhiao Tūkāroto Pōtatau Te Wherowhero.
Whakatauki - Kua takoto te manuka.
Nāku noa, nā,
Lance D. Lavery.
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Kia ora Lance D. Lavery
Please find attached a response to your OIA from the Minister of Foreign
Affairs to your email of 5 June 2022 along with the attached document
(annex one) in request.
Ngā mihi
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