WELLINGTON: As New Zealanders unite behind the All Blacks' Rugby World Cup defence in Japan, activists recall when the team's links to apartheid-era South Africa split the nation in violent protest.
"Foreign correspondents who covered the tour said that for the final match at Eden Park, Auckland looked more like a war zone or something they'd see in Northern Ireland at the height of The Troubles."There were cars upturned, the police were roaming the streets with long batons chasing demonstrators and a plane was flying overhead dropping flour-bombs on the pitch.
Burgess said he never accepted the central argument of tour supporters that sport and politics should not mix. Police responded with increasingly brutal tactics, staging baton charges on crowds outside parliament in Wellington in what became known as"The Battle of Molesworth Street".
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