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Thu Jul 18, 2013, 07:50 PM Jul 2013

AFN condemns nutritional experiments on aboriginal children

Source: CBC

The Assembly of First Nations has unanimously passed an emergency resolution condemning nutritional experiments done on aboriginal people including children in residential schools in the 1940s and 1950s.

Delegates stood and wiped away tears as they passed the resolution Thursday afternoon at the AFN’s annual meeting in Whitehorse.

The resolution states the experiments "reveal Crown conduct reflecting a pattern of genocide against aboriginal peoples."

It condemns the action of the federal government for allowing and being involved in the experiments and calls on the government to provide access to all records on experiments conducted on aboriginal communities and aboriginal children in residential schools.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2013/07/18/north-afn-passes-resolution.html



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I had no idea. BlancheSplanchnik Jul 2013 #1
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