Muds Demand More Money - NZ Foreign Reparations After Tarrant Christchurch Cull

[Ryan-NZ]

NZ has 'abandoned me', elderly father of terrorist attack victim says

Jody O'Callaghan | Stuff.co.nz (NZ) | 30 March 2021

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124684088/nz-has-abandoned-me-elderly-father-of-terrorist-attack-victim-says

Elderly Pakistani parents of a Christchurch terrorist attack victim say they have received no support from the government and are struggling without their son's salary.

Accountant Syed Areeb Ahmed sent $2200 a month to his elderly parents in Karachi, Pakistan, before he was killed at Masjid An Nur (Al Noor Mosque) in the March 15, 2019 attack.

His father Syed Ayaz Ahmed is now calling for the New Zealand government to step up to support him and his wife as their money fast runs out.

He is among several overseas family of victims who have spoken to Stuff about feeling abandoned by "cruel" government criteria that only supports families within Aotearoa through ACC and other agency support.

Andrew Little, the minister in charge of the response to the Royal Commission report into the attack, said the Government had provided "significant" support and the "Royal Commission did not make a recommendation to pay compensation to overseas families".

It comes after the Human Rights Commission released a report calling for the Government to abide by United Nations terrorism response guidelines and offer reparations and redress to victims.

Ahmed was in tears as he explained the pain of losing his only son – a "loving, caring, and intelligent man" – who the family was "totally dependent on" for income.

He was proud when his son was invited to work for professional services firm PwC in Christchurch, and his son sent half his salary home to his parents – as was custom of Pakistani sons.

Ahmed and his wife have received no financial or social support from the Government, in a country his son knew as fair and just, he said.

"I feel I have been abandoned by the Government," he told Stuff.

He is grateful for donations from the public, which he used to buy the home he and his family rented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIEtzM4kHbs

But those donations are fast depleting, and he is scared of their future in a country with no elderly welfare system.

Their only other child, a daughter, is newly married and in a family financially struggling amid Covid-19-hit Karachi.

Little said ACC death benefits for dependents could be paid to people based overseas – including funeral grants, survivor grants, weekly compensation and childcare costs for partners or spouses.

Under the legislation, someone could only be paid weekly compensation based on their child's earnings if they were a financially dependent on them due to their "physical or mental condition".

Ahmed said he wrote to ACC for support, but he was told he did not qualify.

Mariam Gul lost her parents Karam Bibi, 63, and Ghulam Hussain, 66, during Friday prayers at Christchurch's Linwood mosque, along with her only sibling Zeshan Raza, 38.

She said there were "multiple families" abroad feeling neglected by a "cruel" government offering nothing in support.

"Nobody wants to fight for us there in New Zealand.

Victims were still victims no matter where they were living, she said.

She believed the attack was a failure of the government.

Community advisor Raf Manji could see why some victim families overseas might be feeling the Government had "washed their hands of them", particularly because ACC offered them no support.

"We know the ACC model is not the appropriate model in response to a terrorist attack."

Associate Minister for Social Development Priyanca Radhakrishnan said only Christchurch-based victims would be considered for the collective impact board currently seeking nominations.

But she expected the board, set up to help communicate community needs to agencies, would "ensure their voice is heard and responded to".

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He was proud when his son was invited to work for professional services firm PwC in Christchurch, and his son sent half his salary home to his parents – as was custom of Pakistani sons.

Ahmed and his wife have received no financial or social support from the Government, in a country his son knew as fair and just, he said.

"I feel I have been abandoned by the Government," he told Stuff.

He is grateful for donations from the public, which he used to buy the home he and his family rented

Didn't NZ offer citizenship to family members affected in the attacks?

We can't change what happened and I am sure they are sad about the assassination of their son but they can't expect to keep getting hand outs from people who had nothing to do with Tarrant.

They bought their home at least. I am sure there is a lot of seniors in Pakistan worse off than them! It would be a hard life there with no welfare. Go set up a snack kiosk or something on the street with what little money you have. Or if you get NZ citizenship can't you just go there and work?

[Ryan-NZ]

These muds have been paid 50 million dollars in damages it works out to a million per mud and they still want more. And they want more money for medical expenses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOZ1O4MCxfM

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

So .... who's fault was it that Tarrant killed whom he did?!
Is it New Zealand's responsibility to pay compensation?!
No! He was an Australian National who broke the law when he was granted a residence permit out of trust. NZ has nothing to do with what he did and the tax payers shouldn't foot the bill!

Should Australia pay compensation? No! The Australian tax payer has nothing to do with the planning of the crimes committed in NZ. Although Tarrant was Australian, he broke no law in Australia.

Who is to blame for what happened? Brenton Tarrant himself and (perhaps) whomever put him up to the crimes.

Why should everybody else pay and be sorry for what he chose to do?

We don't like Muslims or non-Whites here, but fair enough the muds' family are suffering. Generosity has already been offered to immediate families of the victims. This means if they have a NZ passport they can choose to live and work in either Aus or NZ as long as they don't break the law. So armed with NZ passports, if they want compo then get up off their arses and work like the rest of us have to here?!

Oh! That's just not cricket! Play the victim card some more.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9429605/Hundreds-Pacific-Islanders-arrive-Australia-pick-fruit.html

Another raft of international workers have bypassed coronavirus restrictions to travel to Australia and pick fruit on farms and get it to supermarkets before it spoils

Victoria's farming industry will welcome more than 100 international workers over the next week to help manage this season's harvest

The workers, from the Pacific Islands, arrived in the state on Friday after completing 14 days in hotel quarantine in Tasmania.


More workers will arrive in Victoria in the coming days as part of a planned, rolling schedule of arrivals which will get up to 1,500 Pacific Islanders working in the state's farm sector.

'This is a great example of what can be achieved when governments, industry and employers work together for the greater good of agriculture,' Victorian Agriculture Minister Mary-Anne Thomas said in a statement on Friday.

'Our Pacific neighbours will be warmly welcomed on our farms from next week and will join local workers across the state as the harvest continues.'

The Victorian government thanked the workers for their 'commitment and valuable contribution' to the state

If they let any old mud come and pick fruit in Australia the least Australia could do is extend the jobs to the families of the slain in NZ by Tarrant. I mean it's lame that they aren't quarantining which is wrong but not just the whinging families of the victims can have this right .... what are the Abo's doing? Can't they be involved in this scheme?

Admin Edit: Forcing Abos to work is "slavery." Bringing more muds in from overseas to do the same work is "MultiCULTuralism."