'It was horrific. It was heartbreaking. It was wrong. And it should never have happened,' says Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
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“It was horrific. It was heartbreaking. It was wrong. And it should never have happened,” Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said with around 200 abuse survivors and families watching on from the public gallery at parliament in Wellington. Luxon said a National Remembrance Day would take place on November 12 next year and work will begin to remove memorials like street names, public amenities, and other public honors of proven perpetrators. Instead, the country would honor the victims, many of whom were buried in unmarked graves at psychiatric and other sites that were places of care in New Zealand.
The inquiry detailed a litany of abuses in state and faith-based care, including rape, sterilization, and use of electric shocks, which peaked in the 1970s.
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