The horror of the 2019 terrorist attack has been at times intensified, and at others muted, by the fact that it happened in New Zealand – a relatively quiet and peaceful country that was shaken by a rare mass shooting, but responded with compassion for the victims and rejection of the Australian gunman’s racist motivations.
A plaque erected by Noraini Abbas and Lyttelton residents at Pony Point, near Christchurch, in memory of the victims of the mosque attacks.