By John Pilger
Truthout | News Analysis - Tuesday, 25 March 2014
The tape is searing. There is the voice of an infant screaming as he
is wrenched from his mother, who pleads, "There is nothing wrong with my
baby. Why are you doing this to us? I would've been hung years ago,
wouldn't I? Because (as an Australian Aborigine) you're guilty before
you're found innocent." The child's grandmother demands to know why "the
stealing of our kids is happening all over again." A welfare official
says, "I'm gunna take him, mate."
This happened to an Aboriginal family in outback New South Wales. It
is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognized
abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the
last century. Up to the 1970s, thousands of mixed-race children were
stolen from their mothers by welfare officials. The children were given
to institutions as cheap or slave labor; many were abused.
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