Video: New Zealand soldiers perform Haka for fallen comrades in Afghanistan

The New Zealand Defence Force released a video showing hundreds of troops performing a traditional Maori funeral Haka as a farewell to three of their colleagues who were killed in Afghanistan. New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key announced last week that the country will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan earlier in 2013 than planned.

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[Liam Dyce]

why the fuck do people get all political and throw hate around on these videos!! its a video about respect and honour and you lot are wrecking it by having pathetic arguements about stuff you will never have a say in or change! SORT YOUR HEADS OUT AND SHOW SOME RESPECT!!

[alikos88]

no one is asking your opinion YUGO

keep your petty Balkan shite out of this video.

you Serbs,Bosniaks,Croats,Albanian­s are some really screwed up people.

NATO should have never got involved in your shithole Yugoslavia

You bastards migrate to other countries (my country canada) and bring your petty balkan hate with you. And now your here talking about Kosovo and Serbia. No one gives a shit

Canada, NZ Australia and UK could kick the shite out all you Yugos..hell Britain ALONE could destroy you

[alikos88]

no...beacuse I dont give a shite about you yugos.

God Bless Canada, UK, Australia, NewZealand

Brothers in Arms 4 ever

you yugos can go to hell for all i care.

[snakesufc]

Respect brothers.

[Jure Vastl]

By "wouldnt you be pissed if someone took important part of your history" i mea n... dammit just look up kosovo in wiki!

[Jure Vastl]

Ok first of all People of Yugoslavia never wanted NATO(DEVIL) involvment! NATO just did the bidding of your west coorporations to bomb away their biggest competition so they could buy them after the war...Example: 600 million$ worth steelworks in Zenica bought after bombardment by US Steel for 23 million and tobacco factory Niš bought for almost nothing after bombing by Marlboro. Try to educate yourselfe first before you talk. wouldnt you be pissed if someone took important part of your history?

[dramorak1]

That was pretty cool

[Mrboutitboutitallday]

Also europeans never killed many maori. Disease did. Laws repressed maori more than a show of arms. Most battles were won by maori.

[Mrboutitboutitallday]

Many maori in the defence force, the head of the military is maori in New Zealand. Last time I checked there were more maori than european in the defence force or numbers were at parity.

[cmur078]

well, it isn't really a purely ethnic thing anymore, but if you look at the people doing it, they're not 'Europeans' you can see that most of the guys in the middle for instance are Maori. New Zealand definatly has issues in terms of race relations, but it's not really that bad, some things just are 'new zealand' customs now.

[geekygangsta]

what is the translation for this?

[Darren Lynch]

Brilliant....what a send off!!!