JULIAN BATCHELOR IS BEING PERSECUTED BECAUSE HE OPPOSES THE CRIME OF APARTHEID

Julian Batchelor is being persecuted because he opposed to Crime against Humanity and that is the inhuman acts resulting from the policies and practices of apartheid in New Zealand. Julian Batchelor is currently running a tour of New Zealand called Stop Co-Governance aimed at stopping the Crime of Apartheid which exists in New Zealand under the Apartheid Framework called Co-governance. The information spread on Mr. Batchelor’s various Stop Co-Governance websites and social channels, including the pamphlet clearly explains that he is opposed to Crime of Apartheid in New Zealand. Batchelor denies he is racist, inciting hate or spreading misinformation, but he supports all new Zealanders having equal rights regardless of who their grandparents were. Batchelor has consistently denied he is racist or spreading misinformation and says he is a strong supporter of “equal rights for all”. He also says “I am ‘for’ free speech and thus believe that all groups/people must be given a forum to express their views, I am linking arms with people all across the globe who are defending democracy, free speech, one person one vote, all votes of equal value. Who are fighting against apartheid and racism.” In his email, Batchelor said the events were “inclusive”, that Māori people were not prevented from entering and that attendees were “barred because of their behaviour, not the colour of their skin”. He said the events had attracted “every kind of person from every kind of political persuasion, age group and ethnicity”. Batchelor liberally scatters terms such as apartheid, elitist, Zimbabwe-state and treason in his talks. He says his Stop Co-Governance tour is about promoting democracy and safeguarding the rights of all New Zealanders. Batchelor’s referring to the co-governance model as apartheid and elitism, is noted in New Zealand media, and echo similar commentary in Australia.

Wheras Australian broadcaster Alan Jones, who has raised it on social media and his new channel ADH TV. “We do not want New Zealand’s model of co-governance and to be separated by race,”

Wheras Australian broadcaster Alan Jones has hosted the New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, who in 2022 suggested the push for co-governance was a “separatist agenda”. Peters told Jones there was “a secret agenda” at work. “What you’ve got here is a sinister agenda to put into place a re-engineered world the way they see it,” he said. “Dare I say it’s worse than socialism.”

Wheras Dr. Sanjana Hattotuwa, an advocate and supporter of the Crime of Apartheid in New Zealand, says the information spread on Mr Batchelor’s various Stop Co-Governance websites and social channels, including the pamphlet, " is extremely worrying. It is what you would call dangerous speech. It incites hate, and it instigates harm offline".

Wheras Catherine Murupaenga-Ikenn, an advocate and supporter of the Crime of Apartheid in New Zealand, organised what she called a “peace rally” to counter Batchelor’s event in Whangārei, said his message was part of a “perfect storm” in New Zealand.

Wheras Karen Venables, Dan Lander and Puna Wano-Bryant who are active supporters of the Crime of Apartheid in New Zealand, says they are part of Rongomau Community Action, a Taranaki group committed to Māori representation. They believe Julian Batchelor's anti-co-governance tour is divisive, hurtful, and harmful.

Wheras the Electoral Commission says the material various Stop Co-Governance websites and social channels, including the pamphlet clearly explains that he is opposed to the Crime of Apartheid in New Zealand by Mr. Batchelor could be considered election advertising, and may earn its author Julian Batchelor a hefty fine.

The Crime of Apartheid is annually condemned by the General Assembly as contrary to Articles 55 and 56 of the Charter of the United Nations from 1952 until 1990; and was regularly condemned by the Security Council after 1960. In 1966, the General Assembly labelled apartheid as a crime against humanity (resolution 2202 A (XXI) of 16 December 1966) and in 1984 the Security Council endorsed this determination (resolution 556 (1984) of 23 October 1984). The Apartheid Convention was the ultimate step in the condemnation of apartheid as it not only declared that apartheid was unlawful because it violated the Charter of the United Nations, but in addition it declared apartheid to be criminal.

The Apartheid Convention declares that apartheid is a crime against humanity and that “inhuman acts resulting from the policies and practices of apartheid and similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination” are international crimes (art. 1). Crimes against humanity are widespread or systemic criminal acts which are committed by or on behalf of a de facto authority, usually by or on behalf of a state, that grossly violate human rights. Article 2 defines the crime of apartheid – as covering “inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them”. It then lists the acts that fall within the ambit of the crime. These include murder, torture, inhuman treatment and arbitrary arrest of members of a racial group; deliberate imposition on a racial group of living conditions calculated to cause it physical destruction; legislative measures that discriminate in the political, social, economic and cultural fields; measures that divide the population along racial lines by the creation of separate residential areas for racial groups; the prohibition of interracial marriages; and the persecution of persons opposed to apartheid.