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Continued from page 40 following tortures inflicted on them and without food or water for days; other children as young as five years old * regularly applying electric shocks to sometimes Department of Defense between the years 1922 and 1984: their heads, genitals and limbs. people. The Catholics did it big time * tightening fish twine and wire around Perhaps the clearest summary of the in Quebec when they transferred kids boys' penises; nature and purpose of such sadism are the wholesale from orphanages into * sticking needles into their hands, words of Bill Seward of Nanaimo, a sur- mental asylums. It was for the same cheeks, tongues, ears and penises; vivor of the Kuper Island school: purpose: experimentation. There was ¢ holding them over open graves and The church people were worshipping lots of grant money in those days to be threatening to bury them alive; the devil, not us. They wanted the had from the military and intelligence + forcing them to eat maggot-filled and gold, the coal, the land we occupied. sectors: all you had to do was provide regurgitated food; So they terrorised us into giving it to the bodies. * telling them their parents were dead them. How does a man who was raped The church officials were more than and that they were about to be killed; every day when he was seven make happy to comply. It wasn't just the * stripping them naked in front of the anything out of his life? The residen - residential school principals who were assembled school and verbally and tial schools were set up to destroy our getting kickbacks from this: everyone sexually degrading them; lives, and they succeeded. The whites was profiting. That's why it's gone on * forcing them to stand upright for more were terrorists, pure and simple. for so long. It implicates a hell of a lot than 12 hours ata time until they (Testimony of Bill Seward to Kevin of top people. (From the Closed Files collapsed; Annett and IHRAAM observers, of the IHRAAM Tribunal, containing * immersing them in ice water; Duncan, BC, August 13, 1998) the statements of confidential sources, + forcing them to sleep outside in winter; oo June 12-14, 1998) ¢ ripping the hair from their heads; seus ° repeated ly smashing their heads against Editor's Note: To obtain a copy of "Hidden From History: Such experiments and the sheer brutality concrete or wooden surfaces; : ; The Canadian Holocaust’, contact The Truth of the harm regularly inflicted on children daily beating without warning, using Commission into Genocide in Canada, c/- in the schools attest to the institutional whips, sticks, horse harnesses, studded — §§79 Grant Street, Burnaby, BC V5B 2K9, view of aboriginals as "expendable" and metal straps, pool cues and iron pipes; Canada, telephone +1 (604) 293 1972, email "diseased" beings. Scores of survivors of * extracting gold teeth from their mouths kevinannett@yahoo.ca or kevin_annett@hot- 10 different residential schools in BC and without painkillers; mail.com, or visit the website http://annett55. Ontario have described under oath the * confining them in unventilated closets _ freewebsites.com. See review, NEXUS 9/01. without food or water for days; * regularly applying electric shocks to their heads, genitals and limbs. Perhaps the clearest summary of the nature and purpose of such sadism are the words of Bill Seward of Nanaimo, a sur- vivor of the Kuper Island school: The church people were worshipping the devil, not us. They wanted the gold, the coal, the land we occupied. So they terrorised us into giving it to them. How does a man who was raped every day when he was seven make anything out of his life? The residen - tial schools were set up to destroy our lives, and they succeeded. The whites were terrorists, pure and simple. (Testimony of Bill Seward to Kevin Annett and IHRAAM observers, Duncan, BC, August 13, 1998) sometimes Department of Defense people. The Catholics did it big time in Quebec when they transferred kids wholesale from orphanages into mental asylums. It was for the same purpose: experimentation. There was lots of grant money in those days to be had from the military and intelligence sectors: all you had to do was provide the bodies. The church officials were more than happy to comply. It wasn't just the residential school principals who were getting kickbacks from this: everyone was profiting. That's why it's gone on for so long. It implicates a hell of a lot of top people. (From the Closed Files of the IHRAAM Tribunal, containing the statements of confidential sources, June 12-14, 1998) Such experiments and the sheer brutality of the harm regularly inflicted on children in the schools attest to the institutional view of aboriginals as "expendable" and "diseased" beings. Scores of survivors of 10 different residential schools in BC and Ontario have described under oath the NEXUS = 85 Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust Continued from page 40 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com