World Affairs:
New Zealand Neo-Nazi terrorist attack on people
Forty-nine people were killed
and another 48 injured in a
horrifying terrorist attack yesterday
afternoon on two mosques in the
New Zealand city of Christchurch.
The attack is by far the largest
mass shooting and the most severe
act of terrorism in New Zealand’s
history, and one of the world’s worst
in the recent period. Seven people
died at Linwood Masjid Mosque
and 41 at Masjid Al Noor Mosque
next to Hagley Park, near the city
centre. Another person died in
hospital. It is possible the death toll
will rise.
The Central Committee of
CPI(ML) pays a humble tribute to
those who lost their lives in an
attack by white supremacist. The
CPI(ML) expresses deep condo-
lences towards their families and
wishes a speedy recovery to the
wounded. The CPI(ML) condemns
the killings a crime against
humanity.
Three people have been
arrested in connection with the
massacre. So far, only one man
has been named, 28-year-old
Australian citizen Brenton Tarrant,
who was produced in court charged
with murder.
Although many details are not
yet known, it is clear that this was
not a random or “senseless”
action. According to a 73-page
“manifesto” published by Tarrant
online, he spent two years planning
the attack after spending some time
living in Europe.
Entitled “The Great Replace-
ment,” the manifesto makes clear
that Tarrant was a white
supremacist and considered
himself a “fascist.” The document
praised mass murderer Anders
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Behring Breivik, who killed dozens
of young people and children at a
Norwegian Labour Party camp in
2011, motivated by anti-Islamist
prejudice. Tarrant claimed to have
had “brief contact” with Breivik and
to have received his “blessing” for
the New Zealand attack. Tarrant
hailed US President Donald Trump
as “a symbol of renewed white
identity and common purpose.”
Like Trump, Tarrant described
immigrants as “invaders,” stating:
“We must crush immigration and
deport those invaders already
living on our soil.”
In fact, the attack took place in
a
definite
domestic
and
international political and economic
context characterised by intra-
ctable financial crisis of capitalist
system, imperialist violence and
increasing nationalism, xenophobia
and racism. It follows almost two
decades of New Zealand and
Australian participation in US-led
wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria,
which have killed more than a
million people. Troops from New
Zealand and Australia have been
implicated in multiple massacres
and atrocities against civilians in
Afghanistan.
Under deteriorating social
conditions, growing inequality and
poverty, there has been attempts
to stock up ultraright sentiments
and hatreds in order to divert the
growing disenchantment among
the people particularly youth in New
Zealand and Australia. The atrocity
in New Zealand follows not only the
mass murder committed by Breivik
in Norway, but the 2012 murders
carried out by fascists at a Sikh
temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin in
2012 and at a Jewish care home in
Overland Park, Kansas in 2014;
the 2015 massacre of African-
American
worshippers
in
Charleston, South Carolina; the
2016 murder of British Labour
politician Jo Cox; the 2017 killing
of nine people at a mosque in
Quebec City, Canada; and the
murder in 2018 of 11 Jewish
worshippers at the Tree of Life
synagogue
in
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania—to name only some
of the right-wing acts of terrorism.
Anti-Islamic sentiment has been
deliberately stoked by politicians in
Australia and New Zealand.
Australia’s extreme right-wing
Independent Senator Fraser
Anning issued a fascistic press
release blaming the Christchurch
massacre on the victims them-
selves. He described immigration
as the real cause.
The Christchurch attack makes
it clear that as the world capitalist
system landed into its deepest
crisis since the 1930s, atmosphere
of insidious national chauvinism,
militarism and anti-Muslim
xenophobia are being whipped up
to legitimatise the suppressive and
oppressive rule of capital, which
can only be repulsed with the class
struggle of the proletariat having
socialist perspective.
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