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2004-1015 - Manawatu Standard
- Army abuse claims are a minefield
Editorial - It wasn't that long ago -- the 1970s and the 1980s, apparently --
when all manner of abuses were said to be part of life for cadets at Waiouru
army camp, which makes it all the more noteworthy that some people are now
talking of things like the "social attitudes of the time" and how
what may or may not have occurred there ought to be judged against such
attitudes. Have social attitudes changed so much since then?
2004-1014 - NZ Herald - Cadet
school assessor to be named
By Nicola Boyes - An independent assessor appointed to hear complaints of
brutality at the Waiouru Army cadet school is expected to be announced on
Monday. But the family of cadet Grant Bain who was shot at the school on
February 13, 1981, say they are not holding their breath. They claim the
police and Army colluded to cover-up the 17-year-old's shooting as late as
2002.
2004-1014 - Manawatu
Standard - Ex-cadet wants justice
by John Myers - Michael Everett doesn't want compensation. "Nothing will
recompense for what went on there," the Woodville fencer, 39, says of
his days as a Regular Force Cadet at Waiouru. Mr Everett joined the cadets at
17 in 1982, in response to "a very rosy picture" painted by
recruiters - a picture that turned out to have a dark side.
2004-1014 - Manawatu
Standard - Cover-up easy in Army camp
by David Eames - The former officer, who served at Waiouru in the 1970s, says
conditions were not much different to those in high schools and boarding
schools of the era. Corporal punishment was enforced in the education system,
and this could have contributed to the cadets' mindset, he said. Claims of
abuse in the military surface regularly and are not unique to New Zealand, he
said, citing Britain's Sandhurst Military Academy.
2004-1014 - Dominion Post -
Former army major doubts sodomy claims
by Hank Schouten - A former army sergeant major who spent a total of five
years at the Regular Force Cadet School has dismissed a claim by a former
cadet that he was repeatedly raped at the school 40 years ago. "I just
don't believe the claim by a former cadet that he was sodomised by a group of
cadets is credible," said retired sergeant major Bob Davies of Lower
Hutt.
2004-1013 - Timaru Herald - Local
man recalls Waiouru cadet training
by Claire Haren - The cadet hadn't showered for a couple of days, and wasn't
nice to be near. So his fellow cadets did it for him -- with a yard broom,
mops, soap powder, and cold water. Fraser* was among the group dishing out
the treatment. It was Waiouru cadet school, 1974.
2004-1013 - The Press - A measured
approach
Editorial - An almost audible sigh can be heard from New Zealanders as they
contemplate yet another labyrinthine case of institutional abuse and the
liturgy of apologies and compensation that will inevitably go with it. After
the St John of God, Porirua Mental Hospital, Nazareth House, Salvation Army
and prison solitary confinement affairs, and others, we could do without the
deep flesh wound that is beginning to suppurate at Waiouru.
2004-1013 - NZ Herald - Family
sceptical about cadet school investigation
NZPA - The family of army cadet Grant Bain, shot dead in 1981, remain
sceptical about a new investigation by police into his death. In a statement
last night acting Police Commissioner Steve Long said he was concerned with
allegations implying police may have treated the incident differently from
other homicide investigations, and the matter was to be referred to the
Police Complaints Authority today. Speaking on National Radio this morning,
Murray Bain - brother of the dead cadet - said though the family was happy
with any progress, they remained sceptical about it.
2004-1013 - Manawatu
Standard - Lynley Hood makes good point
Editorial - One more thing: Author Lynley Hood makes a good point as
allegations of abuse at the former Waiouru army cadet school mount -- due
process must be followed, everyone involved should be interviewed, claimants
should give evidence on oath and be cross-examined, and all personnel
involved should be invited to respond, as well as all written records looked
at.
2004-1013 - Manawatu
Standard - Army poster boy recalls cadet abuse
by David Eames - One Army cadet at Waiouru Army Camp had a burning cigar
pushed into his ear while others "copped it on a weekly basis",
says one former Regular Force cadet. The man, now a 47-year-old Palmerston
North contractor, was a cadet at the Waiouru Army Camp in 1973 and 1974.
2004-1012 - NZ Parliament - Questions
for Oral Answer
Rt Hon Helen Clark: Over the last
couple of weeks, with the publicity from the gentleman in Western Australia,
some 85 people have come forward to the office of the Minister of Defence to
express an opinion about what happened at the cadet school, and I understand
that the gentleman who initiated the publicity has probably received rather
more contacts than that. That is cause, given the range of allegations, for
the Government to take the step it took yesterday to move to set up an
independent assessor.
2004-1012 - NZ Herald - Third man says
attack left him sterile
by Mathew Dearnaley - An Auckland man who claims he was beaten about the
testicles with spoons at the Army's former cadet school says it is only
thanks to sperm donors that he has children. The 48-year-old, who will for
his children's sake be identified only by his first name of Ray, told the
Herald he was attacked by four senior cadets in retribution for winning a
"grudge" boxing fight against another youth at Waiouru in 1973.
2004-1012 - NZ Herald -
Independent assessor to probe abuse claims
by Kevin Taylor - An independent assessor will be appointed to examine claims
of abuse at Waiouru's Army cadet school and Defence Minister Mark Burton
indicated an official commission of inquiry was possible. Mr Burton yesterday
announced some details of the Government's response to the abuse claims and
revealed his office had received 85 calls so far alleging abuse.
2004-1011 - NZ Herald -
Ex-major ready to testify over cadet brutality
by Mathew Dearnaley - Former Army major Kev Smith managed to "box
off" bullies during his cadet training, but is prepared to return from
Australia to testify for those left traumatised by brutality. Mr Smith, who
retired from the Army in the late 1980s after 20 years and is a civilian
trainer for Queensland police, says he would be very happy to return to give
evidence to a inquiry which Defence Minister Mark Burton is promising into
the former Waiouru cadet school.
2004-1011 - NZ Herald - Army
camp witness 'never interviewed'
NZPA - The first adult on the scene of a controversial fatal shooting at
Waiouru Army Camp says he was never interviewed by police or Army
investigators, fuelling claims of abuse cover-ups at the cadet school. "They
say there was an inquiry at the time but there can't have been," said
Andy Kyle, a Dunedin sickness beneficiary.
2004-1011 -
Newstalk ZB - Investigation confirmed into Waiouru
The Government has confirmed an investigation will be carried out into abuse
claims at the Waiouru Regular Force Cadet School. Defence Minister Mark
Burton says he will appoint an independent assessor to review relevant
historical information held by the Defence Force as well as information held
by his office and other parties.
2004-1010 - Sunday Star Times - Past
wrongs still need to be righted
by Helen Bain - The abuse alleged at Waiouru from the 1960s to the 1980s,
including beatings, sexual assaults and at least one death, has been likened
to the sort of behaviour that went on in boarding schools of that era: just a
lot of jolly japes that should have made men of the boys involved.
2004-1010 - NZ Herald - Shame
and pain turns to loyalty
by Diana McCurdy - For the outside world, the humiliation and violent abuse
allegedly dished out at the Army's Waiouru cadet school seems bizarre and
frightening. But, paradoxically, psychologists say rites of passage that
involve embarrassment - and even pain - can make people more loyal to a
group.
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