The Events of Parihaka

My Opinion on the Events of Parihaka is:

I believe that Te Whiti and Tohu werre inspirational because they both believed in the spirit of nonviolence and told all the Maori to not fight back even when they  were etting killed and the women raped. When the militia came to invade Parihaka, all the men and women sat on the marai and the children greeted them playing.

 The leaders believed in nonviolence because they knew that they were in the right and the Ennglish were in the wrong, and if they fought back they would also be in the wrong and outnumbered in a fight.

My opinion on Parihaka is that the Maori used the spirit of nonviolence, and therefore were  in the right even though the women were raped and the men killed they still the spirit of nonviolence which I think is excellent.