- Part of a previous article is repeated below, followed
by a summary of evidence Kevin Annett presented in his book titled, "Hidden
No Longer: Genocide in Canada, Past and Present." His entire book
is available free online, accessed through the following link:
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- http://hiddennolonger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/No-Longer-Hidden-1.pdf
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- He calls it "the book that blew the cover off Canada's
genocide," providing "the most thorough, documented body of evidence
ever published concerning the planned genocide in Canadian residential
schools." It includes:
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- -- eyewitness testimonies;
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- -- specific documentation; and
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- -- genocidal roots in "European philosophy and culture
of religious-based conquests known as Christendom," causing "the
extermination of millions of indigenous people."
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- In residential schools and earlier, it represents, by
far, the world's greatest ever genocide, still ongoing by depravation and
cultural extermination.
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- Annett said copies of his book were being destroyed to
suppress truths too disturbing to reveal. As a result, he made it available
in its entirety online, accessed through the above link. It's important,
chilling reading, as true about America as Canada. Both nations remain
complicit in mass extermination, today by means other than direct slaughter.
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- Annett will present much of the book's evidence at an
upcoming International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State in London.
On January 17, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was summoned to appear
before it to answer charges of complicity with genocide. Part of a letter
from The (London-based) International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and
State (ITCCS) said the following:
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- "Over the past three years, your government has
legally exonerated the churches responsible for the death of more than
50,000 children in their Indian residential schools, refused to prosecute
those responsible, and resisted all attempts to locate and repatriate the
remains of these children for a proper burial and criminal investigation."
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- The letter requested Harper begin "criminal legal
proceeding against the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada
for their proven criminal actions" and more, adding that if not begun
by March 1, 2011, the Tribunal will intervene. "In this regard, our
representatives will soon be serving upon you....a Public Summons to appear
before this Tribunal to answer these and other charges."
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- For $50 plus postage, hard copies of Annett's book are
available by calling him at 250-753-3345 or emailing him at hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca.
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- His web site can be accessed through the following link:
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- http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx
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- Some Background
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- The grassroots Truth Commission into Canadian Genocide
reveals the 1880s through the 20th century systematic rape, torture and
murder of tens of thousands of aboriginal children in church-run residential
schools. According to Annett, a former United Church of Canada minister
until fired and expelled for exposing these ugly truths:
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- "The government and the multinational corporations
wanted the Indian land, and so native children from as young as three years
old were forcibly taken from their families and sent to residential schools
(including Catholic ones), where they underwent 'acculturation' programs.
Between fifty and one hundred thousand ended up dead, murdered by the church
and the government."
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- In charge were Catholic, Anglican, and United Church
of Canada authorities complicit with the federal government.
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- In his book "Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The
Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools," Ward Churchill
documented America's hidden holocaust, begun under Captain Richard H. Pratt
(a former prison warden), architect of US residential schools as superintendent
of the prototype Carlyle, PA Indian Industrial School in 1879. His objective
- "kill the Indian, save the man" in every child, but he and
others did both for five generations.
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- Half the children didn't survive, the result of extreme
cruelty, torture, beatings, systematic rape and other sexual abuse, malnutrition,
disease, forced labor, no contact with family members or cultural traditions,
and despair-driven suicides. Survivors were permanently scarred, one in
2000, Sharon H. Venne, saying:
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- "Genocide is genocide, no matter what form it takes
and no matter what you call it."
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- Canada adopted America's model. In both countries, genocide
never stopped. It's hidden on reservations plagued by broken promises;
extreme poverty and neglect; low life expectancy; epidemic disease levels;
high levels of alcoholism, suicide, infant mortality, unemployment, and
incarceration; stolen resources; and lost lives in the name of progress
- genocide as jurist Raphael Lemkin defined it:
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- "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group"
that corresponds to other terms like "tyrannicide, homicide, infanticide,
etc." (It) does not necessarily mean the destruction of a nation,
except when accomplished by mass killings....It is intended....to signify
a coordinated plan (to destroy) the essential foundations of the life of
national groups" with the intent to eradicate or substantially weaken
or harm them. "Genocidal plans involve the disintegration....of political
and social institutions, culture, language, national feelings, religion,
economic existence, personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and"
human lives.
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- In legal terms, the 1948 Genocide Convention used the
same definition. They're binding principles today, ones America, Canada,
Israel, and other nations violate with impunity.
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- Summarized Evidence of Canadian Residential Schools Genocide
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- (1) It reveals planned criminal conspiracy by Canada's
government and Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, and United
Church of Canada to "exterminate indigenous populations, primarily
children, and steal their lands, under the guise of religion and education...."
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- (2) Beginning in 1889, with establishment of the Department
of Indian Affairs, it was codified, then agreed to by all parties in November
1910. They became financially and legally responsible for running schools
that literally became torture/exploitive death camps.
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- (3) From 1889 - 1996, they were responsible for killing
or disappearing 50,000 - 100,000 indigenous children.
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- (4) Their average mortality ranged from 30% - 65%, at
least until 1950.
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- (5) Death was mainly caused by "deliberately housing
healthy native children alongside those infected with tuberculosis,"
then not treating them.
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- (6) Local and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), coroners,
doctors, social workers, and state-funded aboriginal chiefs were complicit
in their deaths, disposal of their bodies, and various other crimes.
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- (7) They violated every provision of the 1951 Genocide
Convention (The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide). Its Article 2 defines it as:
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- Any of the following acts "with intent to destroy,
in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such:
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- (2) Killing members of the group;
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- (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members
of the group;
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- (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of
life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in
part;
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- (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within
the group; (and)
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- (3) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another
group."
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- Article 3 defines punishable crimes, including:
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- "(a) Genocide;
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- (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
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- (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
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- (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (and)
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- (e) Complicity in genocide."
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- (8) Residential schools and their associated hospitals
committed all the above crimes.
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- (9) The Canadian government and churches "were completely
aware of (their) enormous mortality rate" as early as 1891, and were
complicit in facilitating them by:
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- -- abolishing medical inspections in 1919;
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- -- in 1920, requiring all native children aged seven
or older placed in residential schools;
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- -- in 1929, transferring legal guardianship to churches
running them;
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- -- from 1928 - 1933, allowing legal, involuntary sterilizations
in regions with the largest "unassimilated, non-Christian" indigenous
populations;
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- -- at the same time, stripping Indians of their right
to counsel or ability to sue in civil courts; and
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- -- in 1910, adopting an informal policy not to hospitalize
or treat TB-infected Indians.
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- (10) In schools and related hospitals, clergy, school
staff, and others secretly (under legal protection) subjected children
to torture, rapes, beatings, involuntary sterilizations, medical experiments,
slave labor, sex trafficking, and other forms of abuse.
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- (11) Crimes committed were systematic and violent. Moreover,
they were "legitimated, sanctioned and protected by every level of
police, Church and government."
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- (12) Across Canada, at least 28 mass graves contain remains
of dead children. Local and RCMP police refuse to investigate and "may
be involved in destroying" evidence.
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- (13) No one was ever charged, arrested, tried or convicted
for any of these crimes.
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- (14) No one ever admitted responsibility for them or
identified where bodies are buried.
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- (15) Canadian courts won't charge or prosecute culpable
parties and ruled out the crime of genocide.
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- (16) It caused "devastating inter-generational"
harm that continues today.
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- (17) With ongoing collusion of police, church, native
and government officials, organized child trafficking still operates across
Canada, exploiting native children and women.
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- (18) Past and present crimes meet the legal standard
of genocide.
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- A Final Comment
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- Annett dedicated his book to the children who died in
residential schools. He wishes any part of it used freely for non-commercial
purposes. He urges readers to learn more, inform others, refuse to cooperate
with genocidal church and state institutions, and take direct action through
protests, memorial vigils, and civil disobedience. Otherwise, these crimes
will continue until all native people are exterminated, or for those remaining,
their culture genocidally destroyed.
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- He also urges support for an international Tribunal into
Genocide in Canada, what's also needed in America to halt similar past
and unreported present crimes.
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- Whether or not Edmund Burke actually said it, it's more
than ever relevant that all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good
men (and women) to do nothing. No longer is that option tolerable, though,
of course, it never was.
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- Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com
and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the
Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays
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