13 February 2008

"Sorry" at last

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd expressed this week a formal apology for the wrongs committed against Aborigines in the past.

"Mr Rudd said he apologised "especially" to the Stolen Generations of young Aboriginal children who were taken from their parents in a policy of assimilation which lasted from the 19th Century to the late 1960s." (BBC News, 13/02/08)

Previously on Renlai magazine Brian Mc Coy had already discussed this topic through the angle of the "sorry"ceremonies led by Aborigines in Australia: A government who can’t say ‘sorry’
 
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