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"I was given that porridge I got sick on and I had to eat
that … And if you don’t eat, then you’re going to get beat up some
more, and you’re going to get punished – and if you throw up again
you’re going to have to eat that too, so what choice do you
have?” Metatawabin, 66, says at times he and his classmates were forced
to sit in an electric chair – either as punishment or as entertainment
for the staff at St Anne’s Indian Residential School, which operated
from the early 1900s to 1976 in northern Ontario province. Now,
Metatawabin says, the government is hiding information about the
school... St Anne’s was part of a government-supported school system to "assimilate" aboriginal children. About 150,000 indigenous children
were forcibly removed from their families by the federal government for
decades starting in the 1800s and put into church-run residential
schools. Many suffered physical and sexual abuse and squalid living
conditions, and a Truth and Reconciliation Committee recently said at
least 4,000 children died – a number that could be much higher..."
via
Canada accused of hiding child abuse evidence – Features – Al Jazeera English.
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