The Skinhead International: New Zealand
A small racist and anti-Semitic Skinhead movement is known to
exist in New Zealand, although estimates of its numbers are
difficult to come by. The adult neo-fascist groups that
provide the Skins with ideological guidance are themselves
believed to have no more than 200 members combined.
One far-right group, the New Zealand National Front, has
published a newsletter called Skinhead.
Skinhead attacks are rare. Where they have occurred, the
victims have tended to be members of the Indian community.
New Zealand's most notorious Skinhead crime took place in
October 1989, when Skinhead Glen McAllister went on a shooting
spree with a pump action shotgun in Cathedral Square in
Christchurch. He killed 22-year-old Wayne Motz, and then shot
himself to death. McAllister had been released from jail only
a week before the shooting, after having served two years and
three months of a four-year sentence for stabbing another
Skinhead. At McAllister's burial, several Skinheads, including
his brother, Craig, displayed a Nazi flag and gave the
stiff-arm Nazi salute.
Recently, there have been reports of at least one prosecution
of a Skinhead in Christchurch for violation of the Anti-Racial
Vilification Section of the Human Rights Act. (Anti-Defamation
League, 56)
Anti-Defamation League. The Skinhead International: A Worldwide
Survey of Neo-Nazi Skinheads. New York: Anti-Defamation League,
1995. Anti-Defamation League, 823 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY
10017.
Disclaimer: not all skinheads are neo-nazis or white
supremacists. There are many skinheads who are non- or anti-racist, and
who come from a variety of different religious and cultural backgrounds.
Nizkor recognizes their achievements in anti-racism: they are part of
the traditional, non-racist skinhead subculture and are not the
perpetrators of the hate crimes discussed here.
Unless otherwise specified, the word "skinhead" within these pages
refers only to neo-Nazi and white supremacist skinheads, the
perpetrators of hate crimes and participants in racist organizations.
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mind that not all skinheads are racist.
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