Modern Horror in the First World – The Stolen Children of Canada and Australia

Cultural genocide poses a particular threat to the world’s indigenous peoples, even now, that the displacement of Native children from their families and their placement in institutions by the Australian and Canadian governments is well documented. Bodies of children barely old enough to talk, hundreds of unmarked graves, more and more statements by survivors, all shocked and shaped Canada in 2021. It is now clear that the common policy of the Australian and Canadian governments were policies of assimilation, with residential schools constituting an assault on Aboriginal children, an assault on Aboriginal culture, leaving the children scarred for life. As a result of such discoveries, members of the stolen generations have filed lawsuits in both Canada and Australia. In the field of education policy and cultural genocide, relying on comparative case studies whilst using qualitative methods and considering key factors such as the environment at the premises, the targeted group, as well as litigation and liabi

Keywords: genocide, aboriginal, indigenous, residential school, Canada, Australia