Native Affairs Summer Series takes a look back at the big stories of the year that was.
Tonight we meet Māori working their way through apprenticeships, we journey through Italy following in the footsteps of the Maori Battalion and we meet two remarkable kuia and tour their historic home.
First we begin this evening with a special report we broadcast in June that was then picked up by media around the globe.
New Zealanders have been told the role of our troops in Afghanistan is to help the locals.
Their focus is supposed to be on reconstruction or training and mentoring Afghan security forces. However questions have been raised about a joint operation our military undertook with Afghan and American troops in 2010.
The operation, a night raid on a remote village, was a strike against insurgents alleged to have been involved in a kiwi soldier's death. Tonight you'll hear eye witness accounts, from those villagers who say the raid left 21 innocent Afghans dead or injured and that there were no insurgents in the village that night.
We would like to point out that the footage shown in this story is not from the operation in question.
Here's our special report by correspondent Jon Stephenson.
A warning, this story features images that some viewers may find disturbing.
The full episode which featured this story is located below.