The Royal Commission wishes to acknowledge the 51 shuhada. They have been at the heart of our inquiry.
We hope that the stories of the 51 shuhada are kept alive and that their stories inspire us and future generations.
| Abdelfattah Qasem | Abdukadir Elmi |
| Ahmed Gamal Eldin Mohamed Abdel Ghany | Ali Mahmoud Elmadani |
| Dr Amjad Kasem Hamid | Ansi Karippakulam Alibava |
| Arif Mohamedali Vohra | Ashraf Ali Razak |
| Ashraf El-Moursy Ragheb | Atta Mohammad Ata Elayyan |
| Farhaj Ahsan | Ghulam Hussain |
| Haji Ashraf Ali | Haji Matiullah Safi |
| Haji Mohemmed Daoud Nabi | Hajji Maheboob Allahlakhar Khokhar |
| Hamza Alhaj Mustafa | Dr Haroon Mahmood |
| Husna Ahmed | Hussein Hazim Al-Umari |
| Hussein Mohamed Khalil Moustafa | Junaid Ismail |
| Kamel (Moh'd Kamal) Kamel Darwish | Karam Bibi |
| Khaled Alhaj Mustafa | Lilik Abdul Hamid |
| Linda Susan Armstrong | MD Mojammel Hoq |
| Mohamad Moosid Mohamedhosen | Mohammed Imran Khan |
| Mohammed Omar Faruk | Mohsen Mohammed Al-Harbi |
| Mounir Soliman | Mucaad Aden Ibrahim |
| Dr Muhammad Abdus Samad | Muhammad Haziq Bin Mohd Tarmizi |
| Muhammad Suhail Shahid | Muhammad Zeshan Raza |
| Musa Vali Suleman Patel | Naeem Rashid |
| Osama Adnan Youssef Abukwaik | Ozair Kadir |
| Ramiz Arifbhai Vora | Sayyad Ahmad Milne |
| Sheikh Muse Nur Awale | Syed Areeb Ahmed |
| Syed Jahandad Ali | Talha Naeem |
| Tariq Rashid Omar | Zakaria Bhuiya |
| Zekeriya Tuyan |
The Royal Commission also wishes to acknowledge the many survivors and witnesses.
We hope the whānau of the 51 shuhada, and survivors and witnesses of the terrorist attack and their whānau live a peaceful life.
"Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua."
"I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed firmly on the past."
This whakataukī or proverb speaks to Māori perspectives of time, where the past, the present and the future are viewed as intertwined. This conceptualisation of time does not leave the past behind, rather the past is carried into the future.