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Australia Sorry for Abuse of Castoff Kids

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Posted on Nov 15, 2009
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In the decades after World War II, some 10,000 British children were separated from their families and exiled to Australia, where many were physically and sexually abused and some were put to work in what were effectively child labor camps. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who has already apologized for his nation’s treatment of its native people, will officially say sorry to these immigrants Monday. The British government, meanwhile, has outraged the founder of the Child Migrants Trust by letting Australia beat it to the punch.

The benefits of the migration policy were thought to be twofold. The British government would spend less on the care of the children while Australia would get “good white stock” to fill up the continent.

The BBC recounts the abuse suffered by one of the victims. We can only hope it didn’t reflect what happened in the rest of the cases.  —PZS

BBC:

In testimony before a British parliamentary committee in the late 1990s, one boy spoke of the criminal abuse he was subjected at the hands of Catholic priests at Tardun in Western Australia.

A number of Christian brothers competed between themselves to see who could rape him 100 times first, the boy said.

They liked his blue eyes, so he repeatedly beat himself in the hope they would change colour.

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By samosamo, November 19 at 6:40 pm #

“”“By johannes, November 19 at 7:54 am #
What do you mean by black people in Europe, “”“
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Just what I wrote, that as a kid my education treated blacks as nothing but
people in africa that were easily shipped off to other countries for slave work,
you know, that part of the economy that just cannot continue if there are some
part of the human race that can’t be held in slavery just to let the ‘big’ boys
have their absolute rock bottom cost of a human work force in slaves, AND that
was just another of those things that is just not mentioned so it is a surprise to
me as I grew up that there were blacks who wound up in europe and the u.s. as
a slave work force but some were able to escape their slavery and live as a productive citizen so I am surprised, but not that much considering england’s
behavior during its ‘late victorian time of wealth’ by absolutely starving the
peoples(10s of millions) of India,  China and Indonesia just to ‘manage’ their hold on wealth in these areas which isn’t much different today as the new ‘ass hole’ country on the block is the u.s. who are still english speaking.

And now to find, not too unsurprisingly, that england was shipping these kids
off to australia for whatever reason but for sure separating kids from living
parents and as per some unsaid code by the ‘elite’ making children still the butt
of some of the most malicious treatment happening on this planet but these
days it is not just the children but everybody who must cope with a human
population that is closing in on 7,000,000,000 people if it hasn’t already
surpassed that number and that has any and everything to do with the
situation the people on this planet are in today because as far as humans are
concerned it is easier to hate others of the same species or any species as it is
with people of another race.

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By Natalie, November 19 at 12:26 am #
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Good on Australia for taking a stand on this issue.  The apology was long overdue.

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By samosamo, November 16 at 8:03 pm #

Another eye opener for me just as finding that blacks were part of the old
american west(no matter how hard the movie industry kept them out) and that
blacks were a large presence in european countries which I can remember
those american and world history shows never covering in those text books
other than blacks were only good as slaves but now we have our birth land,
great britain, shoveling off poor children, with many who still had parents, to
another land in the seemingly ‘gracious’ pretense that it was for their own
good but as I see it, the only good was to get them away from such a rotten
ass country as great britain at the time.

So, wwII gave the english a huge influx of workers for those ‘disparate’ british
companies in dire need of good cheap labor to minimize costs and maximize
profits.

So, I wonder how many of those kids would want to ‘move back home’?

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By johannes, November 16 at 10:18 am #

To The G8, underwhile you are dining and have fun, their are children starved to death, just while they geth no food, best thing for you and your friends to do, seize your belongings and go fishing.

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By johannes, November 16 at 8:16 am #

We bether not start to write about children abuse, the children of the world are paying the price, for all institutions and beneficent organisations who make a good living out of them, they are more or less used for this sexual sick and spinster woman.

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