The Canadian Holocaust Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:23:36 -0600 (CST) caught signal 13: cleaning up X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on pascal.ctyme.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-13.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LIST_OWNER, SP_HAM_EXTREME,UNDISC_RECIPS,URIBL_SBL,WHITE_PHRASE autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 http://www.restorative-business.org/the_canadian_holocaust.htm The Canadian Holocaust As early as November, 1907, the Canadian press was acknowledging that the death rate within Indian residential schools exceeded 50% (see Appendix, Key Newspaper Articles). And yet the reality of such a massacre has been wiped clean from public record and consciousness in Canada over the past decades. Small wonder; for that hidden history reveals a system whose aim was to destroy most native people by disease, relocation and outright murder, while assimilating a minority of collaborators who were trained to serve the genocidal system. This history of purposeful genocide implicates every level of government in Canada, the RCMP, every mainline church, large corporations, and local police, doctors, and judges. The web of complicity in this killing machine was, and remains, so vast that its concealment has required an equally elaborate campaign of cover-up that has been engineered at the highest levels of power in our country; a cover-up that is continuing, especially now that eyewitnesses to murders and atrocities at the church-run native residential schools have come forward for the first time. For it was the residential schools that constituted the death camps of the Canadian Holocaust, and within their walls nearly one-half of all aboriginal children sent there by law died, or disappeared, according to the governments own statistics. These 50,000 victims have vanished, as have their corpses, like they never existed, according to one survivor. But they did exist; they were innocent children, and they were killed by beatings and torture, and after being deliberately exposed to tuberculosis and other diseases by paid employees of the churches and government, according to a Final Solution master plan devised by the Department of Indian Affairs and the Catholic and Protestant churches. The term Final Solution was not coined by the Nazis, but by Indian Affairs Superintendent Duncan Campbell Scott in April of 1910 when he referred to how he envisioned the Indian Problem in Canada being resolved. Scott was describing planned murder when he came up with the expression, since he first used it in response to a concern raised by a west coast Indian Agent about the high level of deaths in the coastal residential schools. HIDDEN FROM HISTORY: The Canadian Holocaust - The Untold Story of the Genocide of Aboriginal Peoples by Church and State in Canada. [Copyright The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada, 2001] Petition and more extracts from HIDDEN FROM HISTORY: The Canadian Holocaust Related Websites http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org http://canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org June 2004: Canada and its Churches are Accused of Genocide by Major Guatemalan Indigenous Organizations June 2004: Take Action MSRB invites individuals and groups committed to bringing the perpetrators of Genocide to justice to contact: Rev. Kevin Annett, Secretary, Truth Commission: kevinannett@yahoo.ca MSRB: stop-genocide@restorative-business.org Canada and its Churches are Accused of Genocide by Major Guatemalan Indigenous Organizations On Thursday, May 20, 2004, a representative of three major indigenous groups in Guatemala presented a formal protest letter or "denuncia" to Monica Izaguire of the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala City. This protest letter accused Canada and its mainline churches of committing and concealing acts of Genocide against its native populations for more than a century, in their Indian Residential Schools and hospitals. The letter called for the Canadian government to support an international investigation into these allegations of Genocide by Canada and its churches. The letter was endorsed and signed by the Defensoria Indigena, the Consejo de Esperanza of San Andres Itzapa, and the Consejo Asesor Indigena of San Andres Itzapa: To the Government and Prime Minister of Canada: We are deeply alarmed and concerned by the fact that crimes of Genocide are alleged to have been committed against the indigenous peoples of Canada by your government and by the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and United Church of Canada. According to eyewitnesses and official documentation, these crimes are alleged to include murder, torture, rape, involuntary sexual sterilization, forced labour, biological warfare, medical experimentation, land theft, cultural eradication, pedophilia, and the conducting of a prolonged war of extermination against non-Christian aboriginal people. These crimes are alleged to have occurred for more than a century in the state-sponsored and church-run Indian Residential Schools which legally interred every Indian child across Canada between the years 1890 and 1984. During this period, more than 50,000 children died in these schools, according to the statistics of your own Department of Indian Affairs. Most of the bodies of these dead children have never been located or recovered. According to the evidence before us, paid employees and officials of these Indian Residential Schools perpetrated, condoned and concealed every act defined as Genocide by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention of Genocide, which was passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, and ratified by Canada in 1952. The same evidence indicates that the highest officials of church and state in Canada knew of these crimes and continually approved them as a matter of policy. As such, your government and the churches in question appear to be responsible for having committed and concealed intentional Genocide, as defined by the United Nations. We understand that your government and the churches in question have only acknowledged the physical and sexual attacks on native children in these schools, and have refused to take responsibility for any of the other crimes attested to by eyewitness survivors. In this way, your institutions can be considered to be openly violating international law, and holding yourselves unaccountable for crimes against humanity committed by your employees and accountable officials. As representatives of indigenous organizations throughout the Americas, we therefore call upon your government and the churches in question to abide by morality and international law, and do the following: 1. Support a motion before the United Nations General Assembly and the International Criminal Court to establish an International War Crimes Tribunal into Genocide in Canada. 2. Surrender to this Tribunal all evidence held by your government and the churches in question pertaining to any and all crimes committed against indigenous people and their land, including murder and Genocide. 3. Surrender to this Tribunal the names of all persons who are guilty of such crimes in the Indian Residential Schools. 4. Respond publicly to the allegations of Genocide made against your government and the churches in question by survivors of the residential schools. 5. Revoke the charitable, tax free status of the churches in question on the grounds that they are accused of having committed and concealed crimes against humanity, and should therefore not be subsidized and aided by the public until these allegations are proved or disproved. We are communicating this appeal to the world community and its media, prior to further public action on this matter. This statement has been delivered to the world press, as the first in a series of further denuncias anticipated by the Guatemalan indigenous groups, which are working with The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada to make these facts known. For more information, contact The Truth Commission into Genocide. Kevin D. Annett, Secretary kevinannett@yahoo.ca Take Action In view of the failure by the "Canadian" government to support an international investigation into the allegations of Genocide by Canada and its churches, MSRB requests everyone and all the parties concerned to email or write to the Olympic committees of all nations participating in the Athens Olympic requesting: 1. All athletes to sign the petition (STOP COMPLICITY IN GENOCIDE) for an international tribunal to investigate the genocide and crimes against humanity: 2. The international Olympic community to express their solidarity with indigenous peoples of "Canada" (and Guatemala) by boycotting the Canadian contenders at the 2004 Olympic Summer Games, Athens (see letter below). Celebrate Humanity! "Celebrate Humanity" is the global promotional campaign for the 2004 Olympic Summer Games. The following is an open letter addressed to the Olympic community. Please read the letter and if you agree with the content and wish to express your solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Canada, please sign and email the letter to all National Olympic Committees whose e-mail addresses are listed below: You can send a copy to the "Canadian" Prime Minster at pm@pm.gc.ca Thank you. Celebrate Humanity: An Open Letter to the Olympic Community Dear Olympic Athlete: "Celebrate Humanity" is the global promotional campaign for the 2004 Olympic Summer Games. Celebrating Humanity is indeed an appropriate theme for the Olympic Games because the Olympic athletes represent the best of their nations; they are the local heroes who are bestowed with the responsibility of promulgating the Olympic Values: moral principles, truce, self-respect, fair play, respect for one another, fraternization between people, friendship, collaboration, emulating noble ideals, solidarity, polyphony (diversity of voices), harmony, development of free and critical thought, and creative activity. The Olympic Values are more essential today than ever for the continuity of civilization. And the Olympic Athletes continue in their prominent role more than ever to upholding the Olympic Values. *** Solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Canada *** On May 20, 2004, a representative of three indigenous groups in Guatemala presented a formal protest letter or "denuncia" to the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala City. This protest letter accused Canada and its mainline churches of committing and concealing acts of Genocide against its native populations for more than a century, in their Indian Residential Schools and hospitals. The letter called for the Canadian government to support an international investigation into these allegations of Genocide by Canada and its churches. Below are excerpts from the letter: --- To the Government and Prime Minister of Canada: We are deeply alarmed and concerned by the fact that crimes of Genocide are alleged to have been committed against the indigenous peoples of Canada by your government and by the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and United Church of Canada. According to eyewitnesses and official documentation, these crimes are alleged to include murder, torture, rape, involuntary sexual sterilization, forced labor, biological warfare, medical experimentation, land theft, cultural eradication, pedophilia, and the conducting of a prolonged war of extermination against non-Christian aboriginal people. These crimes are alleged to have occurred for more than a century in the state-sponsored and church-run Indian Residential Schools, which legally interred every Indian child across Canada between the years 1890 and 1984. During this period, more than 50,000 children died in these schools, according to the statistics of your own Department of Indian Affairs. Most of the bodies of these dead children have never been located or recovered. According to the evidence before us, paid employees and officials of these Indian Residential Schools perpetrated, condoned and concealed every act defined as Genocide by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention of Genocide, which was passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, and ratified by Canada in 1952. The same evidence indicates that the highest officials of church and state in Canada knew of these crimes and continually approved them as a matter of policy. As such, your government and the churches in question appear to be responsible for having committed and concealed intentional Genocide, as defined by the United Nations. We understand that your government and the churches in question have only acknowledged the physical and sexual attacks on native children in these schools, and have refused to take responsibility for any of the other crimes attested to by eyewitness survivors. In this way, your institutions can be considered to be openly violating international law, and holding yourselves unaccountable for crimes against humanity committed by your employees and accountable officials. As representatives of indigenous organizations throughout the Americas, we therefore call upon your government and the churches in question to abide by morality and international law, and do the following: 1. Support a motion before the United Nations General Assembly and the International Criminal Court to establish an International War Crimes Tribunal into Genocide in Canada. 2. Surrender to this Tribunal all evidence held by your government and the churches in question pertaining to any and all crimes committed against indigenous people and their land, including murder and Genocide. 3. Surrender to this Tribunal the names of all persons who are guilty of such crimes in the Indian Residential Schools. 4. Respond publicly to the allegations of Genocide made against your government and the churches in question by survivors of the residential schools. 5. Revoke the charitable, tax free status of the churches in question on the grounds that they are accused of having committed and concealed crimes against humanity, and should therefore not be subsidized and aided by the public until these allegations are proved or disproved. We are communicating this appeal to the world community and its media, prior to further public action on this matter. --- Unfortunately the "Canadian" government has failed to respond to the protest letter. Regrettably, the Canadian Olympic community, too, have remained silent about the genocide and the official cover-up, which is being perpetrated in their name. They have thus failed in their moral obligations both as human beings and as Olympic athletes upholding the Olympic Values. They have no place, therefore, at the 2004 Olympic Summer Games, Athens, and should not be made welcome. We ask YOU both as an Olympic athlete and a free human being to express your solidarity with the indigenous people of "Canada" to: 1. Sign the petition for an international tribunal to investigate the genocide and crimes perpetrated by "Canadian" government and its churches against humanity. http://www.petitiononline.com/watergod/petition.html 2. Copy this letter to your friends, colleagues (including all athletes and National Olympic committees - see below for contact details), and inform everyone you know. 3. Boycott the "Canadian" athletes at the 2004 Olympic Summer Games, Athens. Thank you. In the spirit of humanity and the Olympic Values, {PLEASE TYPE YOUR NAME HERE}