and we came over that little rise over there and there and down here it's in a black car full long so alice. and we didn't know who it was at the time. the driver said you know they are right there. and he said no we didn't know where they were. we kept on walking and they kept face of us in this car. and they kept training at us to get in. and we refused her. a hundred yards that way. and they offered us some way screaming jell-o. . restaurant in tents. and i had a screen there too we finished we all loaded back up in the car but they never went back the way they came they went around away from the reason i fell asleep. and i never will come up until we are coming up to the moon against him. when after

a good old nothing related i was kidnapped like i said my dad did no good for anybody new fears and teachers and they didn't hear how they got the children. i believe it was february two years ago. those on the board sessions that are

choosing united church and chisholm township of the board five miles out here and my first set were the sessions meeting effect in there was two other members and the minister and myself. and the minister was going through the agenda that we were to talk about in she mentioned the residential school system and all of a sudden i started to shake and broke down crying i had no idea why. i didn't know what this was about it all. and from that i ended up going to my doctor and for some depressed help pretty pression and he referred me to a psychologist in north bay. and to curb probably twenty minutes to determine the biggest part of my problem was from that incident fifty years earlier. but i was to the station there in the r.c.m.p.

and we had a territorial jail there which most times i was in jail guarded night and this day shift i happened to be the same to whatever came on through the door it would be sometime between november of sixty four and april of sixty five on a day shift i was assigned to assist an agent from the residential school system to pick up two children from a family in fort smith northwest territories i went to the door of this home and the woman who lived there knew why we were there to know she know that there are two two daughters who are being sent to residential schools the mother was crying both children were crying probably six and eight years old. and i took the six year old from her arms actually and turned them over to the agent. he jumped in his car and dart took off to the airport in aerospace and the end of that night i saw i never saw him i don't remember the children's names but i'll never forget the cars

. at the time i didn't like the idea of taking kids away from their family bothered me in person being in the r.c.m.p. had no alternative who couldn't complain about it. the only thing i knew about the in the uterus a dental schools was placed. the good formal education i didn't see any problem but . since then i've come to realize what they were both. heard no differently now and that's part of the story that i want to tell. took up maybe the tribe minutes of my life. and i buried it back in sixty four sixty five. and a boat fifty years later it came back to haunt me. here in boston.

we were sitting at this at this very spot i'm not sure if it was exactly the same table we're sitting at this very spot. at a board meeting. you remember ron you were on the board at the time and and the board at that time had decided that they wanted to study this book called a healing journey for us all and part of that took us into residential schools well let me let me say first clearly that i think the residential school

history within canada is one of the. the greatest tragedies if not the greatest tragedy in our whole. history as a country. it's. the damage that's been done to so many lives and. the damage that it continues to be done and that will be felt it generationally. is is just it's beyond one that we it's hard to even take it in. presidential schools are schools that were set up by the government of canada and there are other countries that have the same thing but it was

a policy that was put into place to bring all as many indigenous people as possible into these schools to educate them into the european way of life to take you away from your culture your language all your traditions and that's what it's about. in order to sever those ties in your culture in your language they had to separate children from families and communities we wore uniforms you all dress the same you had your hair cut the same you were all one and it was to assimilate us to make sure we didn't have an indian in us when we left here.

the focus of the church or recently we had say prayers and things like that. we weren't allowed to talk in our language we had to speak english but. it wasn't indoctrination like he didn't put us in one room and he just indoctrinate us all day long or anything like that it's just the way the routine of the place it was him it was in the routine that in in speak anything but english. you went to the white man's school you went the way men church you were the weight men's clothes all those are built in was in a classroom lecture anything it was there was ingrained in the system

there's a living years they. it was taken from them there was no mother no father figures no he said good night or come and see you if you're sick or something no we look at everybody except that they put is in a big player i'm similar to this dining room. and we sort of looked at. what was going on across this country that so many children were being taken so many children were being put into residential schools and my thing is if if they were such a wonderful school they were models everybody should i had

a non-native europeans everybody should i had a residential school not just one race of people is a very racist policy you know but that's what the intent was it was to kill the indian in the child and pretty much they've done it so you get punished for being who you are. it's a school where you're punished were heard least of interaction. to the punishments were. severe. and punishment for things you never did you never did. i i don't think i ever did anything wrong that would deserve a strap never and that you got it. you never knew it. when you went over

the line there that you know i give the u.d.d. . beating phones was simple but it was more than that it was terror. that come to teach beating. me when you have children put in an electric chair for entertainment or for punishment those are crimes against humanity and yet different things and i've heard of other guys have an electric currents. and they brought us into a place they called a press room where most of the beating is by no name. and we went in or one at a time and got a good shellacking with the letters leather strap and. everybody. was afraid of it but. everybody knew they were going to get it sooner or later i just remember them crying there was a lot of crying in this place a lot of tears. and yet we find out it was like. thousands upon thousands of children that were being abused despite the beatings and the ferocity of some of

the beatings we still defied the authority to run away. the boy say how he's over sixty boys. displayed the number each of us are lonely beyond a spear. from within we each had our own battles to fight. we were lost lonely scared and confused her biggest battle was to keep her secrets. her laser shrouded in secrecy no one could know that we all clicked to the new kids are being raped and walesa in large numbers sodomized by a beast. no one could know no one would ever know saddam in the war had

to be a nicer place so he tried to escape. way the colonel seeing what ironing those cut were ferocious they've been relentlessly beaten with the other machine or belts carried by all the staff including the principal the cane beaten until the deck odo to the earth is in need one in the bar and down. up the city streets beaten until there was silence that was the scariest despite this we ran we i believe each of us tried least once to escape that worries prison the holy spirit is with demons all over.

itself and. there is the boilers. at that far end as raw unless it time and time again day after day and boy and i are aware some that come live there some you and miss me somehow or. another there are came. i just came out of there feeling so dirty rotten alone with you you can imagine and i thought every kid over there knew that i had what happened to me . but. i think it all and then because none ever bothered me none ever asked me what happened in there. i think we all got it on fire. but it is a nasty dirty place. it's. third. but here's where i got unless it raised. our assange against

a wall here and he had his way with me. and i was this mother that i. see a time in my life and i felt so dirty and so so all alone. when he had me down in the boiler room and he took my clothes off. and i just stand here little guy this discussed it when he was doing.

it's i think it's very very possible that children did die here but we'll never know assist i've heard too many different stories for it to be all lies if they're not buried here they're probably buried somewhere on the property and it's just one of those things that in time we may come across about this this we can investigate if there's any truth to it if there is anything in there. just just from the people that i know from the survivors that i know that say that yeah they remember this being something and you don't just put a window at the bottom of a basement for any for no reason. how have you changed since you were civil.

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are all the top stories but not to count as dark secrets. i like finding old friends and when he has what i know here by from the residential school the mohawk institute when we first went in there we were my sister and i were separated into groups and i had one older girl that took me under her wing and my sister don we need look after her well i don't you know when i was there i don't even remember going there i don't even remember the people that can be employed in my home i remember them. all i know i was just there so then i met this this older. person who on this older girl kind of took care of me when i was growing up. and she told me when

she's ready to leave because she was in twelve thirty in may before she said that she was going to ask her mother to come and get me and take she to take me home to be her little sister. but didn't happen because. she. got hurt to. hurt her or her bad. i think. i think somebody hit her on a tree. and i don't know i think she died but i'm not really. sure but i don't know. why anyway i've been able to say in the last few years that they killed her

and i was there. what happened to her. abstract click through. sometimes i used to dream up her she would come to me in a dream by that because it hurts to talk aloud. because i remember when to use that. to get back we are there. for back in with the run and play and thanks to him when i got her to pick me up and. give me a hug and some of them to christ that's why we should we remember that no one thought that through after they smashed her in the tree.

you know that song sometimes you can hear it on t.v. on the river shows. guts that's a song for. even if a glass breaks to be. out scream. and sometimes my family get mad and. i said who are i care how that seems to sound that's it scares me and. makes me would like. to see the scene is a drawing child who just surely with four was flailing away with his head above water in a raging river he can swim but the risk with unrelenting he

slips under the surface is briefly trying to catch him in that leaf say to breath but he knows he's going under for good. what tears run upon this child's mind knowing can imagine. those thoughts will go down with him the want to live as seen above in the light under surfaces of the river. as he slowly sinks his here is silky and wavy in the arms still do that ever removing so slowly and reaching for a new purpose except his will tells him to reach up. a lady's surface phase in his body has no more movement except the end of the curtain the time was lay physically along the water going into oblivion.

i left saying it come back one day and attacked those people that had attacked me and i they didn't just attack me i think they attacked every play. but. i wrote a book called our legacy and. since i wrote dead book they don't have this great desire to go back and warn me at the wapping i. i haven't forgiven them and they're not around to forgive when i realize. the effect that this type of government administration had on thousand

people in my time. and it disgusts me. i'm a canadian and i always thought canada was the greatest country in the world. and i'm shamed to say i'm canadian. because it we're a government it's not. the government wanted access to mineral rights mining lumbering fisheries all the natural resources that canada has and they all are on his native land of course they were here first so the government i guess determined that rather than

go to war with the natives they would eliminate them. and i know from my own experience people that i've norm they were raised by whites in the residential schools so when the riff inish there their parents didn't accept them if they were native and the white community did not accept them because they were native so these people knew those hundred fifty thousand children grew up in limbo with no roots no background and no place they could call home. i knew ahead of time when i believe i went to school that day in. and it was the last day of school in summer. everything seemed greater than the grass seemed

greener the sky was blue or. it was just a great day. to come home and they're like you're a stranger i'm a stranger to them but they're a stranger to me too so i had to go find who my relatives were how was i connected to this community i knew where i came from i didn't know that but i just didn't know holly fit in. hundred fifty thousand people children were taken from their families. and as rural a result of that seven generations of native people grew up with no roots. this is my friend carol croce whom i have known for a few years and appreciate her friendship and and what kind of things

she can tell us about her first nations so. having my father my aunt and my uncles. gone to residential school my father never discussed his upbringing he was silent the home that we lived in was silent around who he was and how he was raised so prior to the age of thirty i had no idea or no understanding of what had happened to my family and i knew that there was something up like there was something wrong but i didn't know what that was when i was finding all of these things about residential school when i was thirty. and my father had already passed away my mother was still a life and i started asking michael my aunt questions it began to i began to

realize how strange everything was and it began to see what those schools did and what the effect that we had and why my brothers and i had struggled so much with our emotional life this was a wrong to teach children away from their parents and heard them into a school against their will it just blew me away. and then when wrong on when you had the courage to stand up and see. that this was wrong and you knew it was wrong when it happened instead of standing up and said i witnessed this in it didn't look that bad. i can't tell you what that does for people. i really can't.

and i don't care what bad things you might have done in your life for one i know it was a whole lot because you're good. but. they were raised that. they were complete you respect. but what you don't hear about is what happened step dad all people when their kids are with their way. and those kids come back broken but they come back broken to two adults that are insane and that's the other half so nobody is ok.

get. on the bank and ask for the survivors to stand up for a moment and be here with us survivors please stand. the children in the grandchildren are survivors please stand up as well things began to change when the survivors of the residential school experience went to court beginning of the one nine hundred eighty s. but not really successful until the mid one nine hundred ninety s. when the courts finally ruled that they could sue the government for the abuses

that went on in schools and the churches as well the root of the t r c as in survivors themselves survivors said we demand attention and we demand recognition for what it is and was that we experience in the residential schools i had a problem. i had a hearing problem. mark i went teeth are now on. the way and. i was for him still there and. well you know. especially for middle east you know. we were the recipient of their most private moments in their life often and we as listeners had to be there for them because we weren't just

representing the commission we were actually representing a hearing of the entire country. well as the commissioner for the truth and reconciliation commission listening to the stories of residential school survivors it was difficult emotionally very challenging but there's no doubt that when they cried often we did as commissioners we always made it a point to repeat back to the survivors what it was that they had told us because we wanted them to know that we had heard them and that we believed them. so please be aware anything it took me. to publish. to my buddy for the book that i put.

i could i could tell my grandchildren. like hello my great privilege of north that he loved. but with my own jailor it i can't it hurts it's certainly the think boat. what i missed. it was a very emotional. very emotional time because the more you got into it the more the more things started to come up about residential school that you would start to remember that you'd listen to everybody and. it was a very very difficult time so i was involved right from that right from when the lawsuit started so the truth and reconciliation commission of canada was asked to assist the survivors to move from an arrow being victims of the residential school

experience to becoming. involved in a process of establishing a better relationship with the government and with the church as the story of the truth of residential schools in this country is a story about the resilience of children they have supported me in this work but at great loss to the relationships we could have had and which we will now try to recapture. put. presidential scoots there's. a real week in canada. this

is not. only about. resilience there's a whole lot of truth said to has been shared. it's also about reconciliation and there is not going to be any true theory conciliation in my shine or in new york time it's going to take. three or four generations. to work all this out to get is the history books and have it become commonplace that the guy next door knows where that been the future of canada will students and be told that this is not an integral part. of everything we are as a country everything we are as canadians that is a promise we need credit here to get.

through the closing ceremonies of the truth and reconciliation commission had a five kilometer walk from gatineau quebec to city hall in autumn while it was approximately seven thousand people participating. many natives many non-natives there was different church groups and civic groups people just bringing their families out to participate and support the native americans. by the time the commission's work ended. almost seven years later that we had established the credibility of the commission only in the eyes of survivors but in the eyes of the country the truth and reconciliation commission has brought an image of canada forward that now enclose this history.

the national center for truth and reconciliation was created by the truth and reconciliation commission in order to preserve. all of the materials that were collected under the mandate to the t.r. see. more than just preserving these materials and survivors right across the country have asked us to ensure that their statements and the other material that was collected finds their way into the hands of educators into the hands of researchers so we have a very important and critical role in continuing to expose the truth ensure canadians understand the truth of what's happened in this country and for the contribute ongoing understanding healing and reconciliation in this country. canadians no longer have an excuse though which i think is one of the most critical things about this process of truth or reconciliation. the i

don't know or i didn't know really is no longer defensible. with the. if you see the. very. being made here in the. i'm very hopeful i'm still a bit scared as to what's happening and what could continue to happen i want to see

action i want less talk and more action so we all know that something is changing in terms of healing for the native folk and for white and brown and yellow canada. fun fun fun. fun fun. fun fun fun. fun. fun fun. fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun. fun are a lot of the storm players through it i. wonder. if i'm going to. fly from.

the bay when there is unique they're expressing their. their culture and their. good and january things aboard. the color of the old seats to. the dances the songs.

when every residential school survivor is healed i'll be. going nuts that's how it went for me. i am until they're healed i will be and i'll keep harking to anybody who would listen. there's always hope without hope we're done. now the house has to be hope. and i look at my grandchildren i think yeah there's a lot of hope. i see positive things for i don't.

hello there we're very heavy downpours every part of south america at the moment the satellite picture shows this is a bright white area of cloud here and has been giving us some very heavy downpours over the southern part of paraguay and into the northern parts of argentina just over the past few hours very heavy rains here and this area is going to stay pretty wet as we head through the remainder saturday so plenty of heavy showers here and

in fact as we head into sunday there's that the rain will pop up even further to the north of that there's plenty of showers here for many of us across the amazonian basin and to the south there's more in the way of dry weather but i think even here there's a chance of one or two showers at times and force in buenos aires it won't be that warm with a maximum temperature just of nineteen degrees and a good deal of tied around at times today further towards the north you can see this law i never showers this pushing all the way down towards guatemala there and that's just the tail end of what's been going on over north america we've had severe showers there because it's also brought some very lively showers for us across the central americas more still to come on saturday we're also expecting some pretty heavy downpours over the bahamas as well that's gradually edging eastwards and so for us in the bahamas and for the western policy of cuba they should be more in the way of dry weather the severe weather over north america is clearing away now you can see the travel moving away towards the east. as a sponsor tone. in syria citizens are

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twenty thirty if voters approve a referendum to change the constitution. was after a call from. trump extending support the libyan warlord after urges ambassadors to recognize his rule. also had afghan security forces stop an attack in kabul skies security zone. and then sporting events as have the chance to get over their stock . tanks. the. egyptians are voting in a referendum that could open the door to president. staying in office until twenty thirty voters are also deciding whether to allow the president to appoint top judges and to expand the role of the military fifty five million egyptians are eligible to cast

a vote human rights groups are concerned the referendum won't be free or fair the proposals were put forward by a parliamentary bloc called support egypt again backing from other groups who argue president c.c. needed more time to complete his economic reforms the parliament approved the amendments on tuesday ahead of the referendum that vote is happening over three days starting on saturday and if it passes the amendments will go to the upper house of parliament the shura council for final approval well the amendments are widely described as a step towards more autocracy and sisi. begins our coverage. president i'll deliver to has sisi was sworn in last year after winning his second term in office the vote was marred by claims of irregularities a crackdown on activists and potential challengers a few months earlier sisi had said he would not seek

a third term but the egyptian leader seems to have changed his mind beginning on saturday voters will take part. in a referendum that could extend cc's term in office by two years and allow him to stand for another six year mandate effectively keeping him in office until twenty thirty the movie's a departure from the two thousand and eleven constitutional declaration that limits presidents to two four year terms egypt has completely eliminated opposition it's an environment of repression and fear people are terrified to to to vote to express dissent just in this in the lead up to this vote more than one hundred twenty people have been arrested for campaigning for the for the no vote sisi rose to prominence after the two thousand and eleven uprising in two thousand and twelve he was appointed minister of defense by egypt's first democratically elected president

mohamed morsi a year later sisi deposed morsi in a military coup and eventually became president while consider dating his grip on power his government has a rusted thousands of activists and opponents many facing death penalties the trials were widely condemned by human rights groups as a travesty. over the last few years a predominantly loyal parliament has introduced a series of reforms expanding the militarist influence the referendum is also asking people to vote for a provision that declares the military the guardian and protector of the state the opposition is calling for boycott our dream and hope to have a president elected once every two turns i can to an end but since his will is not without challenges he faces armed groups in the sinai peninsula who have launched attacks against security forces and international calls for political reforms but

the general turned politician seems defiant he's launching mega projects across the country and hoping to be able to fix an economy in tatters and win the trust of the people. let's bring in barely a farming in washington she's an associate professor of political science who researches egypt at the law island university in your family welcome back to the news if this goes according to plan how will he change the constitution. so there are some critical issues that are not really discussed for example i know the term limits are really critical but if you really think about what sisi is consolidating his power around when he has veto power over the supreme court when he can appoint judges when he can appoint chief prosecutors the one vested so we thought about in terms of independence in egypt was the judiciary now he will be on

top of the judiciary if we look at the behavior of the parliament which has become a rubber stamp to his authority which is stacked not just with his supporters but former military and police personnel the judiciary and the legislative branch are no longer independent and this goes against most conventions un recognized conventions on the role of constitution the constitution is supposed to be a contract between the state and society as a way to protect the citizens rights well this constitution aims to do is essentially protect the rights of this regime now more critically it puts the military above the government the military is the guarantee or of the constitution the military becomes the guarantee or of the government essentially the military can dissolve parliament if it wants to and so what this constitution does is it crystallizes and formalizes military authoritarian rule in egypt that is unprecedented in egypt's history they're getting rid of bodies that used to revise

or view contracts for bidding on government projects and by the elimination of this oversight body and regulation essentially the military can continue to entrenched its grip on the economy and on building infrastructure in egypt and so what we used to talk about in the literature as crony capitalism for example is now becoming shrines in the constitution to consolidate power around the supreme executive eliminating any kind of checks and balances he says he needs to do this because he needs to carry through on his promised economic reforms is he right when he says that i mean could the economy be taken in the right direction by somebody else in another way. so the economy has fundamentally been hurting in egypt in the past two years especially as you see of what flow to gyptian pound i.m.f. loans have not really trickled down to the people they really been placing monies

into the hands of the government or more for military military aid and so we think about the average live to gyptian is experience in the past two years the price of goods has skyrocketed that some subsidies have been removed taxes on things for example like cigarettes things that poor people consume has skyrocket the cost of oil cooking oil the cost of rice and so the economy is hurting today c.c. believes that he's going to have these grand schemes and plans we know what happened to this project in the suez canal where the idea was if he built this newly expanded canal businesses would fly to egypt from all over the world and that did not happen on the contrary the canal was built with loans from the population and have yet to see their returns and so these schemes of building these bigger projects are really designed to benefit the military and not the egyptian people today sixty percent of egyptians live under poverty which is much worse than it was

during the beginnings of the revolution and so we think about what economic reform was to do sisi says only he can do it but what we've seen today is that if you don't have a coalition if you don't have democratic political participation if people do not have a voice they actually can propose different alternatives to improving the economy when you talk about people having a voice there back in twenty eighteen he got just under ninety eight percent of the vote given that do any opposition voices in egypt stand any chance of getting any traction in the process as a result of whatever the result is in the referendum. no you have to remember that two thousand eight hundred vote results came after him putting egypt back in a state of emergency. and when we look at the vote today there was a coalition of ten. secular individuals they came together including hamdeen sabbahi who ran for president last year who were calling for a boycott many of them have been arrested there have been one hundred sixty

opposition and political figures arrested in just march and april of this year so far there have been calls for a boycott but i think more critically was this grassroots movement that started about a week ago the bottom of campaign or hash tag bought or hash tag boyd which is an online poll to juxtapose the referendum where people actually go and vote there are no register there no vote because we know that this is going to be a referendum vote that's marred with. marred with corruption and the reason why is that sisi has not allowed any independent election monitoring has not allowed any groups to come in and oversee this process just like he did not allow any groups to oversee his election vote last year so of course it's going to be marred now this bottle of campaign has registered over six hundred thousand votes in just one week and so it could be that his overreach at this time by crystallizing a constitution that's fundamentally undemocratic and transparent is leading to

a moment where egyptians are rallying together and saying no not in our name and it's reflected in the evasiveness and the popularity of this no campaign rally in family in washington thank you. let's bring you some of these pictures of a developing story in europe this is the police in paris a five city so-called yellow bus protesters have been demonstrating for weeks because of the state of the french economy one hundred twenty six people have now been arrested in the police say they've conducted more than eleven thousand spot checks earlier the french interior ministry and the by the streets there are and this is the twenty third of the yellow bus. protests forty's march jews around the not for damn cathedral since the fire broke out there on monday you can see the latest live pictures coming to us from france pretty dramatic pictures in fact in the past thirty minutes or so the pictures that we were monitoring here al-jazeera looked as if the protesters had either set on fire their own motorbikes or as is

the way if you've been to paris you see in this there we go you have seen this row after row of motorbikes and scooters mopeds lined up it looks like they've set some of them on fire deliberately clearly highly combustible this is a key problem obviously for the french president emanuel on the night immediately around about the time of the not fired he was jus to address the nation on national television because he's got to be seen to be engaging with the issues that the yellow protesters have been trying to highlight not just in not just in the french capital in paris because politically that is something of a bubble when it comes to how it votes at presidential elections it is generally always politically left of center.