Australia’s ‘Stolen Generations’ facing prolonged trauma

SYDNEY: Aborigines belonging to Australia’s so-called “Stolen Generations” Tuesday accused the government of prolonging their suffering by failing to implement recommendations from a landmark report 20 years ago that investigated the forced removal from their families.

The term “Stolen Generations” refers to the thousands of indigenous children who were taken from their homes and put in foster care with white families or institutions under assimilation policies that ended only in the early 1970s. Many never saw their parents or siblings again.