New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.

Maori Party MPs protest a controversial bill in New Zealand Parliament by performing a Haka and destroying copies, highlighting tribal rights issues.- Watch Video on English Oneindia

Credit: X/@Maori_Party New Zealand’s parliament descended into chaos as Maori members staged a haka in protest against a bill that would “reinterpret” the country’s founding treaty. The Treaty of Waitangi,