The Operation Burnham Inquiry Report has been released. You can access it at https://operationburnham.inquiry.govt.nz/inquiry-report/
It is a comprehensive, fair and balanced document as you might expect from two pre-eminent jurists … Sir Terrance Arnold and Sir Geoffrey Palmer. Some observations ….
The catalyst for the inquiry was the book ‘Hit & Run’ co-authored by Nikki Hagar and Jon Stephenson (although I understand that Stephenson may have since resiled from some of the claims in the book). Twas fascinating to see Hagar claim on TV that the report vindicated him. It did not. I quote directly from the report, Section 1, para 63 et seq …
However, the principal allegations in Hit & Run about the conduct of TF81 personnel on Operations Burnham and Nova are not accurate. First, the operations were not revenge operations; nor were they “ill-conceived”. There were legitimate reasons for them—there was reliable intelligence indicating there were…
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