The Australian government is to officially apologise to the “stolen children” of Kamerra but with a refusal to offer any financial compensation to the thousands [The Bringing Them Home report, of 1997, says at least 100,000] of indigenous children who were fathered [I cant find anything around the circumstances of the "fathering" but it seems highly probable that the mothers were raped and abused] by white men and taken away from their mothers and families.
“We are a broken people. A lot of our people have no identity, they have no pride in themselves,” says Wallace, who returned to her grandfather’s sacred Worita land to immerse herself in aboriginal culture seven years ago. “They have lost the will to survive, and that’s been passed on to their children. They have got into drugs and alcohol and a lot of our youth are killing themselves. Recognising that we were stolen, it’s admitting that a wrong was done to us.”
Her mother’s sister, whom she affectionately calls Mum-Aggie, recalls the way part-Aboriginal children were removed. “A middle-aged white man came, a short man who smoked a pipe. He would go around the communities and pretend to have a conversation with people but really his eyes were on the children playing,” she says. “That’s how he took note of the kids and reported them.”
Interviews with some of the stolen children
LINK: Facing Australia´s history: truth and reconciliation for the stolen generations
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