BOEE: Bank Of E. England..
This apology reminds me of a scene in a film. There was a fight in a steam /
SONA room between some gangs, and one guy hit by a knife another in his back,
but while that man was falling he realized that he hit the wrong man, and he
said to him: "Sorry for that". .. What is the benefit of saying sorry.. without
any criminal consequences..
It is a kind of a game to keep free the criminals..So why they - the same men
of this evil empire- executed those Germans following WWII trials..
Shouldn't there be trial, and maybe execusion.. Most likely Churchill bones to
be thrown to the sharks for example, including 50 meters in 3 dimensions of
the polluted soil which was responsible to bury his evil soul all these
years.S1000+
Tears flow as nation hears apology
Posted 4 hours 9 minutes ago
Updated 2 hours 59 minutes ago
Remembering the forgotten:
the Prime Minister says it is important to acknowledge "great evil has
been done" (ABC News: Jeremy Thompson)
Many tears were shed today as Prime Minister Kevin
Rudd delivered the historic apology to the hundreds of thousands of
Forgotten Australians.
Almost 1,000 men and women travelled from around Australia to hear
Mr Rudd and Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull apologise for the abuse,
neglect and suffering they endured in foster care and orphanages
between the 1920s and 1970s.
Mr Rudd also extended the nation's remorse to the 7,000 child
migrants, most of whom travelled to Australia from the UK under the
mistaken belief that their parents had died.( In fact Radio NZ said clearly
that children were kidnapped from their families and sent abroad .. Sure people
or criminals like Churchill were in the core of such English empire related
decision S1000+)
Addressing the crowd who gathered in Parliament House's Great Hall,
he says the apology should mark a turning point in the nation's history
to ensure it is never repeated.
Mr Rudd says it is important to acknowledge "great evil has been done".
Mary Smith says she is glad she made the effort to come from Western Australia
to hear the apology.
"It made me cry. I said it wasn't going to make me cry but it did," she said.
"Both political parties were exceptionally good with their speeches.
"After listening to the speeches, they were excellent. Got right down to the
nitty gritty.
"It takes a bit of the pressure off you, really."
Ms Smith says she likes the idea of the Government's pledge to give
Forgotten Australians special care in old age and a national service to
help people find their families.
"I think it's a brilliant idea, if it goes ahead," she said.
But Ms Smith says she is not seeking compensation.
"It's all too late," she said.
Healed
Around 500,000 children, including thousands of child migrants, grew
up in government-run institutions and foster care and many had been
lobbying for for an apology from the Federal Government since it was
recommended by a Senate committee in 2004.
Rayleene O'Hehir and her two sisters were forced into an orphanage in Sydney's
south-west in the 1950s when she was nine.
Ms O'Hehir watched the apology from home and said it had a huge impact on her.
"I don't think I have ever felt such a relief, because now everybody out there
knows exactly what happened," she said.
"I now know my sisters and my family will be so solid with each
other because we know we are human and that should not have happened.
"I just thank the Government with all my heart to have let people
know this and help us. We certainly need the help because it's a thing
you can't forget and a thing you can't put behind you.
"We can now go forward with all our hearts - not half broken - healed."
Sexual abuse
Melbourne resident Sue Wilson, who was sent to an orphanage near
Albury run by the Mercy nuns, was in Canberra to witness the apology.
She says she was more fortunate than most others, including her two brothers.
"A couple of years ago one mentioned something and I brought
something up with the other one and I've had a lot of problems
communicating with him since. He just doesn't want to know," she said.
"I can believe it was sexual abuse. In what form I don't know. I
know one was mildly, if you can call it mildly, sexually abused.
"And the other one, I think it might have been a lot more and he was in
BoysTown and an orphanage in Goulburn."
Too little, too late
The British High Commissioner to Australia, Baroness Valerie Amos,
says the UK Government will also say sorry early next year for its role
in sending children to Australia.
"We're going to go out for a period of consultation because we think
it's really important that we get the terminology right," Baroness Amos
said.
"We acknowledge that this has been a shocking period in our history and it's
important that we say sorry."
Like the British children sent to Australia and Canada, many of
those who also arrived in New Zealand ended up in orphanages or foster
care and were neglected and abused.
Some of New Zealand's child migrants say a formal apology from the
UK government will be a positive step, but it will come too late for
many.
A total of 549 British children were sent to New Zealand between 1920 and 1967,
often without their parents' consent.
Malcolm Axcell came to Auckland in 1949 and was treated appallingly.
He told Radio New Zealand that he is happy the Australian government
has apologised.
"This could be a start for, not a new life, at least a start towards
helping them get over the trauma of what happened to them," he said.
Tags:
community-and-society, child-abuse, government-and-politics,
federal-government, world-politics, australia, act, united-kingdom, england
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