Stolen Children

We know that every country has a story; most of the time is a bad story, full of suffering, screams or blood. We watched a movie (Rabbit Proof Fence) which showed us part of the Australian story and it really captured my attention so I searched for more, that’s why I’m going to share what Stolen Generations or Stolen Children means.

Some decades ago (between 1909 and 1969) the Australian Government started kidnapping Aboriginals children because of two reasons:

- First of all because they didn´t want to mix different racial groups (Aborigines and British), they didn’t want miscegenation.

-And because they thought that the Aborigines couldn’t take care of their children. Some of those kids were abused or abandoned but the thing is that the Government still taken the children even though they were find, most of them were find, they had a normal life, they were safe without any big trouble. But P. McGarry, a politician, said that those people should still being stolen to prevent any dangerous situation.

They sent the children into institutional care and there they received food, education, religion, etc. but they really wanted to get away and come back with their families. The worst thing is that they thought that they were doing the right thing. So they did that until 1970 in some cases. 

On February 2008 the Prime Minister of Australia gave a speech to apologize to Aborigines for all the things that they lived. Nowadays there are a lot of people who still alive and there are a lot of testimonies if you want to look up for more.

I also found a video similar to this but this happened in our country, Chile.  Now I would like to know if you liked this and what do you think.

http://www.elciudadanotv.cl/cortometrajes/cortometraje-animacion-selknam/