Other view about stolen generation

In this entry I will talk about the book we had to read (Rabbit proof fence) and I will do a parallel with the natives in Chile and how are they treated nowadays. The differences between those cultures are a lot.

In the book "Rabbit proof fence" we can see the discrimination against natives explicitly, the government wanted to avoid the born of new half-caste children to differentiate the races.

 The excuse of the government was that the mixed-race children don't come from any culture or race.

Those children were the stolen generation. Why were they taken away from their families? Just because they were white people in some way, and for that cause they had to be treated like "white people". They were kept away to study to be farmers or servants. What they did to be treated that way? They were HALF-CASTE, like most of us nowadays.

After many years, Kevin Rudd (Prime Minister of Australia in 2008) apologized on behalf of Australia for all the suffering caused in the past, he apologized for the stolen generation.

However, in Chile in spite of that many years have passed, and also many governments, nobody apologize for the suffering of the mapuche people. The government is still against mapuche people, they are on warpath. Many mapuche people have been killed, the justice don't who was the killer. The government don't recognize the murders, year by year people is killed without killer. Why? because is "the hidden war".

Nevertheless we can see in articles on internet about people killed on the mapuche area, the articles are in blogs or unofficial sites. Why the government don't admit the murders, or maybe they can say they have not acted on the facts, but they do nothing about it. 

I think THEY MUST TO DO A LECTURE talking about the conflicts with them, and also they have to comment why that facts don't appear in the news.

It's so easier talk about other natives that nowadays don't exist, but ... come on, we have to worry about today, and try to kept the culture.

What do you think about the conflicts?

Do you think that the news of the murders are real or just rumors?

Has any friend comment to you about this?