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The Haka is a traditional ancestral war cry, dance or challenge from the Māori people of New Zealand. It is a posture dance performed by a group, with vigorous movements and stamping of the feet with rhythmically shouted accompaniment.
The All Blacks, the New Zealand rugby team, performs a haka before their matches and this has made the dance more widely known around the world.
Haka – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Video: New Zealand soldiers perform Haka for fallen comrades in Afghanistan
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The Sun
NZ soldiers perform emotional haka for fallen comrades
MORE than 200 soldiers from New Zealand paid their respects to their fallen comrades by performing a mass Maori haka at a repatriation.
The emotional video, which has gone viral, shows the men from 2nd and 1st Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment performing the ancestral war cry for Corporal Luke Tamata, 31, Lance Corporal Jacinda Baker, 26, and Private Richard Harris, 21.
The dead comrades were killed by a roadside bomb while serving in Afghanistan.
The ceremony at Burnham Military Camp two weeks ago showed the coffins arriving by car to be greeted by the mass of soldiers.
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Major John Gordon, a spokesman for the NZ army, said: “Many soldiers don’t tend to show their emotions but today you saw their collective grief.”
New Zealand soldiers send off their fallen brothers with a giant Haka.
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