The man who chose to livestream a massacre on Facebook did not speak in the courtroom, despite having the opportunity to do so, sitting stony-faced as victim after victim spoke | jamesmassola
Widows, the wheelchair-bound, sons and daughters, lining up one by one to look Brenton Tarrant in the eye and share their grief with a still-grieving nation.
Sara Qasem, whose father Abdelfattah Qasem was killed, wept as she told Tarrant: "I want to hear my Dad's voice, my Baba's voice. But after the court case, the conviction and the cataclysmic events of March 15, New Zealand confronts an existential question: how does a nation move on? "New Zealand is like Australia and Canada in many respects, a settler colonial country, but beginning in the 1970s with the introduction of biculturalism and the recognition of indigenous rights, it meant that our public spaces, our policy and political spaces give priority to indigenous rights. Australia and Canada adopted multiculturalism in the 1970s. New Zealand went down a different route in a sense.
"Nothing will take the pain away but I hope you [the Muslim community] felt the arms of New Zealand around you through this whole process, and I hope you continue to feel that through all the days that follow," she said. The consequence of this was that victim impact statements were front and centre in the last week, though Judge Cameron Mander's damning judgement of Tarrant - that a lifetime in jail could not begin to atone for the murders - was released.
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