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Evidence from government ministers and public sector heads in the Royal Commission on the Christchurch terror attack will be kept secret for 30 years.
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The Royal Commission report on the Christchurch terror attack will be published on December 8. Source: 1 NEWS
The Commission has been investigating the attacks since April last year, investigating whether state agencies such as the police and the security intelligence service could have prevented the shootings.
The Commission’s report will be published on December 8. It is expected to detail any failures by government organizations that led to the mosque attacks, including how the terrorist was able to obtain a license for semi-automatic firearms.
Commissioners say a prolonged suppression of all evidence is necessary to avoid inspiring future attacks. A transcript of the interview with the attacker Brenton Tarrant will not be released.
Commissioners Sir William Young and Jacqui Caine said that “the full publication of the evidence could provide an” instruction manual for future terrorists “and they hoped that after 30 years those fears would probably have” dissipated. “
Confidentiality was also a reason for the suppression of evidence, with commissioners saying that the people they spoke with were informed that the process was “private.”
“We told them that our process was private and that we would not publish what they told us in our report without first going back to them.”
“We did this in order to encourage frankness, which we received.”
The Council of Islamic Women is concerned that the crackdown could lead to a lack of adequate accountability.
“Also, for the past Crown ministers who are included in that, there is no liability to them unless the report itself contains sufficient evidence and submissions recounting any fault, negligence, incompetence on their part,” said the national coordinator Anjum Rahman to the NZ. Herald.
ACT Justice and Firearms Law Reform spokeswoman Nicole McKee said in a statement today that the move to suppress evidence is “disturbing.”
“In the first place, this was not the impression given by the statements of the Commission in recent days, which indicated that only certain information would be withheld to protect national security,” he said.
“While the Commission said that a small number of high-ranking ministers, past and present, and senior public officials would not be free to discuss their interviews due to confidentiality orders, it is surprising to learn that this extends to suppression total of your tests.
“In fact, there was much talk of the Commission’s statement that the report had been written in a way that could ‘be made available to the public, in its entirety, without the need for redaction.’
McKee said ACT believes that all evidence other than “those that may harm national security or that may endanger the safety of persons involved in processes that possibly led to the foreign terrorist being able to carry out his attacks, should go public “.
“That is the standard of disclosure expected under the Official Information Act and the public should not receive anything less in this case.”
“Just because the Investigations Act allows the government to do this doesn’t mean it should,” McKee said.
“The enormity of the events of March 15, 2019 and the need for citizens to have confidence in our institutions so that a similar violent act is never repeated, is a valid case for the highest levels of transparency.”
“ACT is concerned that questions about whether lessons will be learned correctly because relevant information is being withheld will remain.”
