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"A conference on human rights opens in Wellington tomorrow. Chris Tremewan argues that we need to set our own house in order before making judgements about the standards st by our neighbors." "Until the treaty is observed, the only right of Pakeha to live and govern here is the right of conquest, the fact that sufficient numbers of Maori were cheated, killed or culturally neutralized to enable the usurpation of Maori sovereignty by Pakeha power. Today, the international community questions the legitimacy of such governments in Afghanistan, Cambodia, New Caledonia, Hong Kong and East Timor."