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s we approach the
first anniversary of
another terrible event
in our history, We
Are One: The Mosque
Attacks One Year On (TVNZ 1,
Tu e s d ay, 8. 30 p m) brings to
light survivors and family
members whose lives were
shattered by the shootings on
March 15.The documentary follows
six families over the year
as they try to make a path
through their trauma and
grief. They include Mustafa
Boztas, who was injured
escaping from Al Noor
Mosque; Aya Al-Umari, whose
brother, Hussein, was killed;
Noraini Abbas, whose 14-year-
old son, Sayyad, lost his life;and Farid Ahmed, who lost
his wife, Husna, when she
went back into the mosque to
rescue him.
Producer-director Virginia
Wright says the documentary
has been a matter of “doing
my best to let them tell their
stories and listening. Like any
other family who has lost a
loved one, they have had towork out how to go forward
without that person.”
In some cases, family
members agreed to go on
camera to honour their loved
one. Farid Ahmed, who has
given a number of interviews,
is “channelling his grief into
putting a calm message out to
the world”.
The documentary alsoA documentary follows survivors or
relatives of those killed in last year’s
Christchurch mosque attacks.
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