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Critically acclaimed New Zealand documentary examining the “anti-terror” raids of October 2007.
On October 15, 2007, activists around New Zealand...
Critically acclaimed New Zealand documentary examining the “anti-terror” raids of October 2007.
On October 15, 2007, activists around New Zealand woke to guns in their faces: black-clad police forced their way into homes and dragged families out onto roads, and in the rural village of Rūātoki, helicopters hovered while locals were stopped at roadblocks.
This was the NZ Police’s ‘Operation 8’ and involved 18 months of surveillance of activists accused of attending terrorist training camps in the Urewera ranges - homeland of the Tūhoe people. Operation 8 asks "How and why did the raids take place? How did the War on Terror become a global witch-hunt of political dissenters reaching even to the South Pacific?"
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"Best NZ "terrorist" film since Sleeping Dogs. And it's real..."
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New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Herald"Interviewing ex-Red Squad member and National Party MP Ross Meurant was a coup for Wellington's Wright and King-Jones. That he provides the most damning commentary of all on the actions of our police and government should be enough to convince most viewers that this film needed and deserved to be made. Operation 8 is a terrific piece of New Zealand film-making. Go see for yourself."
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Dominion Post
Dominion PostOperation 8 | Details
- Runtime
- 110
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- New Zealand
