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with family bonds severed the traumatized child tone between 2 world struggles to return home in a profoundly human story exposing deep fluids in denmark's adoption system. a girl in return a witness documentary on al-jazeera. when tokyo hosts the 2020 paralympics japan's most talented disabled athletes who get their shocks. and glory. but outside the stadiums is a society that still struggles to accept people who are disabled in the past and the japanese citizens were forcibly sterilized for having intellectual physical disabilities now big tips are demanding compensation of what.
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they were i don't the one who was on this episode of one a one a we make the people fighting to overcome japan's bit of protection. even on a rainy day saga about her looks peaceful. but in 26 days this small town near tokyo was the site of japan's biggest mass killing since world war 2. the guy who. just didn't buy. him a chicken was. about. to kashi and to kick her own news disabled son was badly injured that day in july 26th jane now the not just all. access
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dog and they've saved a lot on tonight by none of it though they did something when we did an adult day there not a case on it. in the early hours of the morning with a knife the killer way mutts or broke into a care home for the disabled. was the theme of who. i think it's a book right big who got big quinnell. quinnell on along. a former employee at the care home why not sue knew his way around. as he made his way through the building he stabbed the disabled patients murdering 19 and injuring 27 others. after the attack he surrendered himself at a nearby police station reportedly saying it's better that the disabled just disappear the northern assumed a day when it's
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a night that cutting back on my day still 9 to one up close to one so me and then a man done me so when you do undercut things i say this in the. military sense you don't need. to do the utility role since you don't know you there almost been a. month before his killing spree when not super resigned from his job at the care home after delivering a letter to japan's palomas. even he wrote the disabled people should be euthanized and offered to kill $470.00 of them. he sent someone. thought since it takes their time thought. on facts that i stand one coming out to get on the side judoka that. but we don't know. what it does that isn't in it but not mr mandel i'm going it's. coming up on
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a stage. he wasn't over at all so for him i'm going to give you a net called the 90 who number stand up among. the owners 1st heard about the attack through news reports. as the bodies were being taken away and the police gathered evidence from the killer's house to keep her rushed to the hospital to see her son. more got on they got there now by morning my stand. a money. on the. south side of. joel learnt. that a. car or do that's not there the. there at the all there then the. kid at a. mall. won't.
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see much. in the days after the cash he says the families remained in the dark is so i don't know how. slowly sorting out more got the money to spare. but were taking. none of my cunny 30 i know since i make a hunting with it. kazuya has a profound intellectual disability epilepsy and autism he was 1st institutionalized at 16 thing i want to show my home i'm not the bunny. i was some ok ok ok. well. there doesn't mean. to say yes i have taken some hits
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because i can't because. i mean my 2nd hole that's a condition i. stay so that the more this can all. 3 years after the attack because you has physically recovered and leaves out another carry on but his mother says he is still haunted by what happened call him see. it. once a month at a makeshift memorial families affected by the massacre lay flowers so that those who died can reach heaven. when a total stranger arrives at the vigil the owners are overjoyed. others that have received. the visitors says he had nothing to do with the incident but was so
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affected by what happened that he traveled an hour and a half by bus to pay his respects how long that have been on it and then the line any color there when they need an english dog glad to be going to the saloon realigning are they not the welcome. the owner is the only one of 2 families to speak publicly about the attack the rest of the victims have never been named. even local the mother to them wants to get home i did 6 seats and right to go to law sick initiated. i know corey missing a month or so a day you know later. so i mean. from the institution come to the vigil 7 7 7. they're all going to be awesome they're the farewell.
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in 2020 tokyo will be the in the world to host the paralympic games for a 2nd time. the japanese government hopes the crease awareness for the more than 7000000 japanese living with disability. i do training camp for the national team i meet long jump. will host the next paralympic games your home country. a little bit more nervous.
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had you started training in high school at the time. was growing in his right arm and doctors were considering amputation. but if i feel guilty. with no longer spread. paralympic career is taking off in leaps and. after winning bronze in long jump at the asian power against haji moves alternate goal is to compete at the summer olympics. alone.
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with. your little couple that. they. no longer want. and then will call groping through. japan has a long history of discrimination against the disabled while the country was hosting the paralympics in 1964 people considered bentley and physically inferior would being forcibly sterilized. the eugenics protection law began after world war 2 when japan was struggling with food shortages and a ravaged economy. close to 25000 japanese citizens with sterilized over the next 4 decades 68000 of them against their will. the policy
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only stopped in 9096. for years victims have suffered in silence and shame only now a some demanding compensation but such is the stigma most do so anonymously in the northern province of her. is the 1st to speak out publicly. or in this era warden it. in this is joys of them when they. can do a new what the zoom up on the. over all of us are now my oldest and their story they will be restored. in a more a daze she. says his childhood was tough he contract of polio when he was only 2 and grew up on a farm with
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a foster family but then always there while most. other zumaya. mind you will be the good us who must die so will the murder more cover that will the one they see. when all you've been so good you have to relive but the more i call my what their body. called. the about as you are you grow there you mean are you seeing more than 0 of the world. there you never thought. for me that even those that it is here when you dare not you are in that are not on the in then that are me she in this in my it was you are a done this you. left home and spiraled into delinquency and gangs at 19 he returned to demand money from his foster father who called the
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police. since he was arrested and taken to nak i hospital on the losses you. can talk with. their on. margie with nurses you mean that the one then the see who's a were. supposed to do the woman all the rooms are up that amount of them being seen this didn't go on think over and then when it did the doctors or nurses say anything to congress or the kid on the theory of a zinger. the hordes of marsala may get away with their. theories soon moon is sure of us he saw us he. swore you could do more. there than with the horror. insists he was never formally diagnosed with a mental illness
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a honda her mother wanted to walk by your mother would think it over but years of but a bizarre. says he witnessed other patients being taken to the operating room for forced sterilization surgery some as young as 14 after a year in the hospital was told that he too would have the procedure or when i did you know he was giving them whatever their way out of god and they're more companies that general. course the would. call in with his you're with us how about iraq more on. how to govern there are no one time or no nuggets government i mean that of the war or us government there so when you can just free kind of a visible sign to the say are sort of calm really almost crying this year can you tell me a little bit about what happened on the day of the operation. to the mall or the
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city of the world and those are the very very last cigar in the myth that there was a one a warning to show that in this. during this the last singer kara hopped on a morals would then when there was no one was to go with you when you can go would you come here. soon afterwards managed to flee the hospital he got work as a taxi driver and tried to move on with his life. for 57 years he kept the operation a secret from everyone including his wife record. but in 2018 when another forced sterilization case made national headlines kiko finally revealed what happened. it is. only i got an a funeral only i did that and not know what that and if the system wanted i listen
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and look at that. i know you just said unable to they actually were to. stop. and look like that with a look. at these lawyers office prepares his testimony for his civil case against the government in the district course and if you ask him what indefinite. a mother tongue people divorcing at. his lawyer has evidence from doctors confirming the scars near his growing are consistent with the sterilization procedure a little sensitive facing. this is something that i think you know now doesn't say what they say in the system when it's the other one and then when i was going through the thought that either popped into what he thought. or those of all causes is sort of pulled well there's no this is one of those who were more crude they're
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nice center of the body i'm. not this. regime and they were just laying down recently with the. u.s. but it's how they were searching this. today is showing me not hospital it's only 30 minutes from his heart. i think he wants to show off. the hospital has changed over the years but the memories of his dramatic escape come flooding back. mino carded iraq. war on your door are there. so. one of boston the. other my new you know you know i've been a model would be a bit of. common minimum where you have. the money either.
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when you combine the other mystic and jamie used to work as a taxi driver how hard was it to drop off patients here who were on a ride with him or neither risks that are. you married too soon as they're too little august or is there still may be west. of earlier this week with you we don't mourn as a souvenir because my visit there the more i know nothing of the more we were wrong i'm realising this to fuel economy on with a strict routine of how little. you know i think will mean you know we are.
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the. only difference is a. continued status in their work. this. the hospital declined to comment on kick. outta the government says the law of the decided against. sterilization stopped in 9096 and employment quotas an anti discrimination laws have been introduced. but last year a scandal revealed they lied about the number of disabled people working in their own ministry only heart of the number they claimed were employed to company culture. for. sure hey ornish has struggled to get a job despite being
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a racing graduate of an american community college. he has duchenne muscular dystrophy a progressive genetic disorder that requires constant care. despite the severe disability believes he has a lot to offer the workplace. i have a computer. because i cannot. buy one. if people. know how. joe off. they fear. being wheelchair bound and reliant on a respirator hasn't stopped from travelling the world and with no one willing to employ him he started his own business advising other people with disabilities how to study abroad. and.
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make up the way they want you to wall when you do look at them all. when i. actually. want to do from face. yeah even though. i want to do from face much more like wall. that. feels as though japan holds him back he gets a carer a facilitator hours a day but the rest of his time must be spent in this welfare center. and while the stuff you do live best to care for people with a wide range of disabilities shoe height would rather be possible. and this
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is a good offense i hope it doesn't make. you know show me the way. i don't want to come here i guess i want to or or. anything. if you could be out of your chair and out of your rest. for one day what would you do. i. have. that question but. you know. that and the want to hear much of it. and then which. i walk a fine i do believe.
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it's wednesday and on the other side of town the visiting cousin. it's perfect weather for a picnic. and there. they head to ward. off on was. that they got into gaza. for 2 hours the couple and his character don't own cars. and he basks in their love. this would be done. the beginning he's forming and i have seen. almost all. the way it's good to not pick. the you who knew you could live. in your own home alone and go up imo or
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a she. but i see you only have i'm assuming. i'm not going to. call. mr owner says the attack brought them closer together the couple realized they relied too much on institutions to take care of this. they only used to visit him once a month now it's a weekly affair. to highest level to. turn. him on when they were. made finished another one this can all thought out of it all . they couldn't. because their ha.
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could not be who need. not done this. calling us. could feel smooth. when the visit comes to an end because you have pops up with the same question again and again. when i go to the coliseum with. her are. you going to go. right. or are john doe wrong who are. good boys and the long drive point 0 always tough for the. right. but causing the noise the only way is have next wednesday i got that. right i.
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