Peters, after listening to the protester, turned around in his chair and replied: “Just answer this question, when those people got off the boat and they were treated by their own people, none of them were judged to be brutalised – how come they were brutalised when they came in front of you?”
The protester was escorted from the committee by Parliamentary security.
Another protester, who was also escorted away, described Peters as a “participant of war”.
“You are a war criminal – you know that. I hope you don’t sleep at night,” she said.
She called Peters an “a***hole” as she left the room.
“How did that happen?” Peters said to the committee as it resumed after the disruption.