15 Mar 2025

Six years since Christchurch mosque attacks

From Saturday Morning, 7:08 am on 15 March 2025
Outside the Masjid Annur, flowers surround the memorial to the 51 shuhada (martyrs) who were killed when a terrorist opened fire at two mosques  in Christchurch five years ago.

Photo: RNZ / Nathan Mckinnon

The call to prayer will be broadcast nationwide on RNZ at 1.39 this afternoon - the exact time a white supremacist terrorist unleashed a hail of bullets, killing 51 people and injuring 89 more at the Masjid al Noor and the Linwood Islamic Centre.

A Royal Commission into the attack led to 44 recommendations but the coalition government ended its response to the Royal Commission last August, scrapping 8 recommendations.

Anjum Rahman, is from Inclusion Aotearoa Collective Tāhono, and former spokesperson for the Islamic Women's Council of New Zealand.

She joins Susie from Hamilton.