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Similar situation in Australia. They're called the Stolen Generations, children who were removed from their Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander des
by erklik 5y ago
Similar situation in Australia. They're called the Stolen Generations, children who were removed from their Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent parents by state agencies and church missions. This happened until the 70s. It's nuts how recent it is.
- detaro 5y agoIn Canada the Indian Act allowed the state to force kids into such places until 2014.
- skrebbel 5y agoDo you know how often it was done in practice, lately? Ie did the law getting fixed stop the abuse, or did the abuse stop way earlier?
- HDMI_Cable 5y agoIt was a pretty slow process I believe. By the 1970s, people already knew these residential schools to be bad, but the last one was closed in the 90s.
- petre 5y agoOh, the Aussie government has been sending immigrants, including children, to processing centres in Nauru and Christmas Islands for a while. This is even more recent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_Regional_Processing_Centre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_Regional_Processing_Ce... Also during recent events, the Aussie government banned their own citizens from returning from India under penalty of jail time and huge fees.
- ratsforhorses 5y agoSame in Switzerland for gypsy kids till 1972...https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.liberation.fr/planete/1999/02/15/l-enfance-volee-des-tsiganes-suisses-enleves-a-leurs-parents-par-les-autorites-jusqu-en-1972-ils-rec_264996/%3foutputType=amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.liberation.fr/planete/1999/...