Race fights led to party tragedy say witnesses
5:00AM Wednesday May 09, 2007
By Jarrod Booker

Police are investigating whether racially motivated violence led to a hit-and-run in Christchurch that has left two girls dead and two other people fighting for their lives.

Witnesses spoken to by the Herald have described seeing "skinheads" fighting with Polynesians around the time a car drove through a group of people outside a party of several hundred on Saturday night.

Lipine Sila, 22, is facing two charges of murder after allegedly driving through a group of people and killing Jane Young and Hannah Rossiter, both 16.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10438654

[Apparently the mother of one of the dead girls was on TV blaming unchanneled anger in young men. Funnily enough the last time someone in New Zealand plowed into a group of party goers with a car the driver was female. Guess what race she wasn't?]

Child killed in NZ gang violence
Wednesday, 9 May , 2007 18:28:52
Reporter: Peter Lewis

MARK COLVIN: New Zealanders have again been confronted with the grim reality of violence against children in Maori communities.

The latest incident involved the death of a two-year-old girl in a gang-related drive-by shooting.

The case has sparked a heated political debate in New Zealand this week.

There's anger and frustration about the apparent failure of efforts either to curb the popularity of these potent criminal forces, or to protect the most vulnerable from being caught up in gang warfare.

PETER LEWIS: There's a grief-stricken family at the centre of this appalling incident and today they gathered at a marae or meeting hall in the Lower North island town of Levin for the funeral of Jhia Te Tua.

The two-year-old's middle name was Harmony, yet precious little evidence of it in the community of violence and crime she grew up in.

Her father is a patched member of the Black Power gang, one of several operating in Jhia's home town of Wanganui.

A turf war with the rival Mongrel Mob is thought to have triggered the incidents that led to a hail of bullets being fired into the family's home last Saturday night. One of them struck the toddler asleep in a front room in the chest. She died almost instantly.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1918792.htm

Yawn... so it goes on in sleepy little Nuka Sa'falofaland.