{"id":42598,"date":"2022-03-19T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/19\/the-gates-of-hell-opened-after-decades-maori-survivors-of-state-abuse-are-finally-heard"},"modified":"2022-03-19T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:00:06","slug":"the-gates-of-hell-opened-after-decades-maori-survivors-of-state-abuse-are-finally-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42598","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The gates of hell opened\u2019: after decades, M\u0101ori survivors of state abuse are finally heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori children faced not just the physical abuse, but the trauma of being cut off from their culture, New Zealand royal commission hears<\/p>\n<p>When Tupua Urlich \u2013 the first person to take the stand at a landmark M\u0101ori hearing on abuse in state care \u2013 is asked to talk about his upbringing, he puts his heads to his clasped hands and says he needs to take a minute. \u201cThis is an emotional thing to go through,\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t mind people seeing this because this is what we go through every day of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Urlich, of Croatian and Ng\u0101ti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga descent, was five when he was separated from his mother and seven siblings, and sent to live with a non-wh\u0101nau [non-family] caregiver chosen by the state. \u201cThat\u2019s when the gates of hell opened up,\u201d he says. \u201cI can tell you, I was far safer in those first five years of my life,\u201d he tells the hearing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/19\/the-gates-of-hell-opened-after-decades-maori-survivors-of-state-abuse-are-finally-heard\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori children faced not just the physical abuse, but the trauma of being cut off from their culture, New Zealand royal commission hearsWhen Tupua Urlich \u2013 the first person to take the stand at a landmark M\u0101ori hearing on abuse in state care \u2013 is asked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,503,897,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","category-maori","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42599,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42598\/revisions\/42599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}