New Zealand shooting survivor says violence achieved nothing
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — If the Buffalo supermarket shooter had learned anything from the massacre inside New Zealand that apparently inspired him, it should have been that the violence didn't attain some of the gunman's aims, a survivor said Tuesday.
Temel Atacocugu was report nine times when a white supremacist opened blaze throughout Friday prayers at set of two mosques inside Christchurch trio years ago, killing 51 worshippers with every one other accompanied by severely injuring dozens more.
Atacocugu continues to recuperate from the gunshot wounds inside his mouth, left-hand upper limb with every one other accompanied by both legs.
One of the stated aims of the Christchurch gunman was to sow discord in the centre of ethnic with every one other accompanied by ethnic groups, eventually forcing nonwhite people to leave. But if anything, the facing happened while Muslims with every one other accompanied by non-Muslims embraced every one other inside a shared with every one other accompanied by enduring grief.
Atacocugu said the report concerning the shooting inside Buffalo, New York, with every one other accompanied by its connections to the Christchurch massacre was scary, triggering flashbacks for him.
"Violence does not find an answer to the problem. They should see that. People, including the extremists, should see that violence does not fasten anything," he said. "Peace will fasten it. They have to learn to talk accompanied by people around them, too."
Atacocugu said he was heartbroken for the families of the Buffalo victims with every one other accompanied by wished governments around the world would do additional to place an extremity to extremism.
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"They went to do their shopping with every one other accompanied by they had no indeed idea what's going to happen," he said. "They were fair intelligent to buy their food, maybe they're feeding their young kids at home."
The 18-year-old gunman accused of killing 10 Black people inside the Buffalo assault had watched a copy of the livestream video the New Zealand mosque shooter had taken, according to a document attributed to him.
In a 180-page diatribe, Payton Gendron said he subscribed to the same racist "great replacement" theory that the New Zealand gunman Brenton Tarrant wrote concerning inside a similar 74-page screed.
And exist fond of Tarrant, Gendron allegedly painted slogans on his firearm with every one other accompanied by used a helmet-mounted camera to livestream his assault on the internet.
Gendron, who surrendered inside the supermarket, has pleaded not culpable with every one other accompanied by was jailed under a self-destruction watch.
After eventually pleading guilty, Tarrant, an Australian citizen, inside 2020 became the earliest human being inside New Zealand to exist sentenced to existence imprisonment lacking the possibility of parole, the toughest judgement available.
The Christchurch assault was livestreamed for 17 minutes with every one other accompanied by viewed by hundreds of thousands of people on Facebook earlier to it was taken down. The video with every one other accompanied by Tarrant's screed were fast banned inside New Zealand nevertheless tin still exist found inside black corners of the internet.
Since Christchurch, communal platforms have learned to remove videos of extremist shootings faster. The Buffalo shooter allegedly livestreamed the assault to the gaming platform Twitch, which is owned by Amazon. Twitch said it removed the video inside less than set of two minutes.
The Christchurch attacks too prompted the New Zealand management within weeks to go new laws banning the deadliest types of semi-automatic weapons. Police paid owners to hand over their guns with every one other accompanied by destroyed additional than 50,000 of them.
"We saw inside New Zealand the firearm jurisdiction thing," said Muti Bari, another survivor from the Christchurch attacks. "We saw some measures taken by the management straight away after. We are still waiting to see what the U.S.A. management does. But unfortunately, we haven't seen anything exist fond of that."
Bari, who hid inside a washroom at the Linwood mosque while the shooter killed people fair feet away, said he tries not to believe concerning that day excessively a a large amount of nevertheless is reminded when he meets his friends, including one family that lost both a father with every one other accompanied by a son.
He said the uncomplicated access to guns inside the U.S. coupled accompanied by constitutionally protected without charge speech — with every one other accompanied by the seeming prevalence of hate speech — was a potent mix that the U.S. management needed to believe concerning additional seriously.
The Christchurch assault has too inspired other white supremacist shootings, including a shooting at a Walmart inside El Paso, Texas, that left-hand 23 people dead.
Atacocugu, the survivor who was report nine times, this year retraced the way the gunman drove from Dunedin to Christchurch on the earlier to noon of the attacks.
Despite his lingering injuries, Atacocugu walked with every one other accompanied by biked for set of two weeks down the entire 360-kilometer (224-mile) route. He wanted to bless the route, spread tranquillity with every one other accompanied by alter a journey that began accompanied by hate.
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