i'm rob matheson in doha the top stories on al-jazeera mean maher has seen its worst day of violence since his military seized power nearly 2 months ago local media reporting as many as 50 people have been shot dead in the latest crackdown against anti coop protesters the violence coincides with a military parade in the capital where the leader of the ruling shanta pledged to safeguard democracy and a show of force as a tribute to the army's resistance to japanese occupation joining world war 2 tony chang has the latest from bangkok in neighboring thailand. that the armed forces have really gone into many of the big cities towns even villages across me a month

a day with the very expressed intention of cracking down on this protest as they were expecting large protests today because of armed forces day there had been a very explicit warning on state television yesterday evening their protest the shouldn't throw their lives away those are the words they used but if they did go out on the streets today they would be shot in the head in the back and that very explicit warning has been carried out we've seen snipers in a lot of the big cities many of those cities looking like war zones with reeds of black smoke hanging on the horizon as the security services have gone and burning barricades that residents are put up to try and stop them getting into the neighborhoods and using tear gas stun grenades and life fire as we've seen and a lot of those wounded and dead appear to be coming from sniper shots we've seen a lot of people with very serious head wounds a lot of people very seriously injured as well at this stage it's very hard to get

an accurate idea of exactly how many people die because not only has has the incident slowed down very considerably by the military since that period but they have been targeting a lot of those people who are working to help the 1st aid groups 1st responders who are trying to help the protesters or at least help anyone can get medical aid but at this stage it seems to be a very severe crackdown the delivery of coronavirus vaccines to developing countries to the covert scheme could be set back by weeks because of delays from a major indian producer is being blamed on an increase in demand in india which is recorded the highest number of new cases this year elizabeth put on and has more from new delhi. india has so far exported more clothing line back things than any other country to the c.r.m. and student and is the world's largest vaccine manufacturer and it's been the biggest supplier to the international kovacs and alliance c m

n to choose and india which has been is still manufacturing the oxford astra zeneca vaccine it says $28000000.00 doses to call back so far it was planning to deliver $40000000.00 the smom 50000000 next month and callbacks have said that those will now be delayed and the indian government has stressed that it's not going to ban exports of back same but it's recalibrating how many day export because of the situation in the country with cases rising as they are and they have been criticism in india because as well as being part of the kovacs amman's india has exported vaccines to other countries as a that and also because of commercial agreements 60 more than 60000000 vaccines to 76 countries and people have pointed out that that 60000000 number is higher than the 58000000 people who have been inoculated in india so far the government is running behind its own vaccination shed you kill

a thing 300000000 people in the 1st 6 months of the syria. iran and china have signed a 25 year cooperation part chinese foreign minister one years into her own meeting iranian foreign ministers of a very from other leaders really said to her political economic and strategic components iran's economy suffered from international sanctions after the u.s. withdrew from a 2050 nuclear agreement with china remains particles and your attempt is going to be made to refloat a huge cargo vessel blocking egypt's suez canal the ships japanese owner says crews will try to take advantage of the high tide later on sunday. there's the headlines news continues here on al-jazeera after calibers dark secret a by. the to. see

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be. my name is roberta hell i'm from the mohawk nation grammar territory. a survivor of the mohawk institute residential school i was here as a student from 1957 to january 961 and i came here with 6 of

my family. a lot of their memories here knows for sure. these are really familiar to me. used to play on these on the girl side i was playing down in the basement and a girl side and my mother had come out to the visiting area in the little kids had said your mother is here you want to go see her and i and they were in iran but when i got to the door way over there i froze right in front of the stairs and i couldn't move and i just stood there crying crying crying and the more i cried the worse it got and i could see myself i could actually like an out of body experience i could see this little girl crying and it was me but i and the little girl said well if you don't don't you love your mother don't you want to see your mother and i said you know i did i really did she say she's going to leave you you know she's going to leave if you don't go see her so at that time i knew that she would goal

then i things just kind of came back and i just like i just took off running up those stairs. and i went and sat on my mother and let that time all i did was cry. i just cried. when i was in because it was here i loved her and we just saw her have to part with her year. because my brother was like she was really good mood you know. i am. see. the 1st. no much. to say and will it good times here they are all written by the bed and there is enormous there is a tremendous amount of evil that went on here. so the whole

institution itself was run by fear so it was very regimented more like a military style you lined up for everything to line up for your meals in line up to go to school you lined up to go to church just like that follow that routine and e.u. would be ok if you followed it didn't break the rules you know so you just follow the rules. they didn't have the freedom as is the child or is it the young teenager and always can he wonders if her vision of somebody but we've got them both 6 o'clock and we're sent down to the cold play room and it was always cold and in the basement early morn still a lot of chilling air and yet they put us in the big cement room in and we had to keep warm however we could. be there and all kinds of farm were

they work on a farm so long that. i picked up a certain discipline the poor hard worker to get me where i'm going. and i think at some point there was somebody here that i don't know if it was a kid or a supervisor told me i would never leave here you know so that really stuck in my mind that i was going to be in this place forever. you're isolated all you see is this world around you this is it that was my world i didn't learn about all those other things that were going on until my adult life i didn't know there was all those other residential schools i don't think anybody in canada knew that much so it was kept very secret of and yet when you start to look at every residential school across canada you find the same thing. came to the morgan city we're going to is. 6 or 7 years old and i spent 6 years here.

i was picked up on a new. review and. the. walking on a road. we're going to visit my grandmother one day and they still id like in 1950 there is for a lesson one girl my sister. and we came over that little rise over there and we hadn't burned down here. in the black car for long so i know us. and we didn't know who it was it's i. the driver said you know they were right there. he said no we didn't know where they were. we kept on walking and they kept pace with us in the car. and they kept training at us to get in. and we refused for. a 100 yards that

way. and they offered us some way screaming jello. restaurant intent. and i had a scream 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 woke up until we were coming up to the moon against him. when after i got old enough i realize i was kidnapped like i said my dad didn't know the firm indian affairs in new jersey they didn't care how they nod the children here.

i believe it was february but 2 years ago i was on the board of sessions that are chosen united church and chisholm township is about 5 miles out here and my 1st set were the sessions meeting effect in there was 2 other members and the minister and myself and the minister was going through the agenda there were to talk about him she mentioned the residential school system. and all of a sudden i started to shake and broke down crying. had no idea oh i.

i didn't know what this was about a tall. and from that i ended up for going to my doctor and for some depressed help for depression and he referred me to a psychologist in north be. and to curb probably 20 minutes to determine the biggest part of my problem was from that incident 50 years earlier. 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 in this day shift i happened to be the same to whatever came on through the door it would be sometime between november of 64 and april of 65 on a day shift there was assigned to assist an agent from the residential school system to pick up 2 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 her 22 daughters were being sent to residential schools the mother was crying both children were crying probably 6 and 8 years old. and i took the 6 year old from her arms actually and turned them over to the agent. he jumped in his car and car 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 price. at the time i didn't like the idea of taking kids away from their family bothered me in cursed being in the r.c.m.p. i had no alternative who couldn't complain about it. the only thing i knew about the in the universe is a dental schools was

a place where the good formal education and i didn't see any problem with it. and since then i've come to realize what they were a boat and i know differently now and that's part of the story that i want to tell . it took up maybe 5 minutes of my life. and i buried it back in 6465. and about 50 years later it came back to haunt me. and of course. as.

we were sitting at this at this very spot i'm not sure if it was exactly the same table were 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 1st clearly that i think the residential school history within canada is one of the the the greatest tragedies if not the greatest tragedy in our whole. history as a country. it's 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 generationally. is is just it's

beyond one that we it's hard to even take it in. feel. 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 the 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 took us to 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 you didn't put us in one room and you just indoctrinate us all day long just the way. the routine of the place

it was in it was in the routine. that in in speak anything but english. well you went to the white man's school you went the way men church you were the way men's clothes is all those are built in was in the classroom that you're painted thing in because there was in green in the system there's a libyan years the. it was taken from them there was no mother no father figures nobody said good night or come and see you if you're a sick person didn't know me look arity except that they put his in a big player room similar to this dining room. and we sort of looted looked after

ourselves. what was mourning on across this country that so many children were being taken so many children are being put into residential schools and my thing is if if they were such a wonderful school they were models everybody should i had him now i mean if europeans everybody should have had a residential school not just one race of people it's a very racist policy you know but that's what the intent was is 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 the school where you're punished for the 3rd least the interaction thing. 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 you got it. you never knew it. when you went over the line they let you known they give you d.d. . beating soandso a symbol but it was more than that it was terrorism that accompanied each beating. for tell me when you have children put in an electric chair for entertainment or for punishment lesser 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 the press room where most of the beatings were no name. and we were near one of the time and got a good shellacking with the litters leather strap and. everybody's. i 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 in the beating we still defied the authority to run away. the boy say how he's over 60 boys. displayed this number each of us are lonely beyond despair. 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.

are laser shrouded in secrecy no one could know we all clicked through the knew the kids were being raped and walesa in large numbers suddenly the babies. no one could know no one would ever know. saw him in the learn had to be a nicer place so he tried to escape. the colonel scene when ironing those caught were ferociously been relentlessly beaten with the other machinery belts carried by all the staff including the principal the cane beaten until liz beamed echoed out to the earth the need money the burns down the lean way up the city streets beaten until there was silence

that was the scariest despite this we ran away i believe each of us tried least once to escape that worries prison the hellish place with demons all of. us. ethel and. i was a boy others. at that far and got my lesson time and time again day after day and boy and i are aware some that come live there. some even miss me somehow. another error came. just came out of there feeling so dirty rotten lower as you can imagine and i

thought every kid over there knew that i had what happen in 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 face. but here's where i got him a lesson here. saying against the wall here and he had his way with me. and i was his mother. sometimes my life and i felt so and so so. bad we

don't in the boiler room he took my clothes off. and they just stand here a little guy just discussed what he was doing. here it's i think it's very very possible that children did die here but we'll never know all 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 it but 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. it's one of the world's most powerful and dangerous criminal enterprises central to the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people and behind the deaths of many more exceptional access to some of its key players reveals the kings of an organization telling the name to many as the blood alliance inside the sinhala cartel part 2 of a 2 part investigation people in power on al-jazeera. meets

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coverage and in-depth analysis of his 1st $100.00 days in the oval office april. roberson in doha the top stories on al-jazeera mean maher has seen its worst day of violence since his military seized power nearly 2 months ago local media reporting as many as 91 people have been shot dead in the latest crackdown against anti who protesters tony chang has more from bangkok we are getting information have been all through the day. people reporting on social media reports from sources on the ground that they armed forces have really gone into many of the big cities and towns even villages across me a month a day with a very express intention of cracking down on this protest as they were expecting

large protests today because of armed forces day there had been a very explicit warning on state television yesterday evening the protesters shouldn't throw their lives away those are the words they used but if they did go out on the streets today they would be shot in the head or in the back in the violence coincides with a military parade in the capital for the needy leader of the ruling applies to safeguard democracy they are no show of force is a tribute to the army's resistance to japanese occupation during world war 2 the delivery of coronavirus vaccines to developing countries through the kovacs scheme could be set back by weeks because of delays from a major indian producer is being blamed on an increase in demand in india which is recorded the highest number of new cases this year. the hindu nationalist party of indian prime minister narendra modi is hoping to secure an unprecedented win in west bengal as voting gets under way for state elections polling is also underway

in 2 states the court of tensions about a new law that grant citizenship to minorities from neighboring countries but excludes muslims. iran and china have signed a 25 year cooperation part chinese foreign minister one years into the deal is said to have political economic and strategic components democrats and republicans are blaming each other for a surge of people crossing the u.s. border from mexico the number of arrivals has reached near record levels and recent weeks and your attempts being made to refloat the huge cargo vessel blocking egypt soon as can all the japs ships japanese owner says crews will try to take advantage of saturday's high tide we'll have more news in half an hour goodbye. the health of humanity is its stake a global pandemic requires a global response. w.h.o. is the guardian of global health delivering lifesaving to lose supplies and

training to help the world's most vulnerable people uniting across borders to speed up the development of test treatments and a vaccine keeping you up to date with what's happening on the ground in the ward and in the lab now more than ever the world needs w.-h. on making a healthier world for you. to everyone. i like finding old friends and winnie as well i know her by from the residential school the mohawk institute when we 1st 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 when you 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 picking me up but in my home i remember that. i know i was just there so then i met this this older. person on this older girl she 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 1213 maybe 14 she said that she was going to ask her mother to come and get me and think she could take me home to be her little sister. but didn't happen because. she she.

because she got hurt. 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 i saw. what happened to her. just. sometimes i used to dream up her she would come to me in a dream by that it hurts to talk a lot. because i remember when to use that. piggyback we on.

the back and run and play and. and when i got her to pick me up and. give me a hug and sending them to christ. like the way we should we do when we met and. after they smashed her in the tree. you know that sound sometimes you can hear it on t.v. on the river shows. guts that's a song. even if a glass breaks today or out scream and sometimes my family get mad and. i said who are i care how is that since the sound of it scares me and. makes me would like.

the scene is a drawing child who just surely with 4 was flailing away with his head above water in a raging river he can swim but the risk with that unrelenting he slips under the surface is really for the 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 sites will go down with him the want to live as seen above in the light under surfaces of the river. as he slowly sinks is here is silky and wavy in the room still

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 a physically a long 1000000 into oblivion. i left saying it come back one day and attacked those people that had attacked me in they didn't just attack me i think they attacked everybody. but. i wrote a book called hard legacy in. a road dead book they

don't have this great desire to go back a morn beat the whopping. i haven't forgiven but they're not around to forgive when i realize. the effect that this type of government administration had on 1000 people in my time. and it disgusts me that i'm a canadian and i always thought canada was the greatest country in the world. and i'm ashamed to say i'm canadian because it wasn't a government it's not. the

government wanted access to mineral rights mining lumbering fisheries all natural resources that canada has and they all are on his native land of course they were here 1st so the government i guess determined rather than go to war with the natives they would eliminate them. and i know from my own experience people that i've known 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 news 150000 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. and. it was just a great day. he 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. a 150000 people the children were taken from their families. and as rural

a result of that 7 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 1st 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 30 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 30 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 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 ron when you had the courage to stand up and see

that this was wrong and that you knew it was wrong with it happened instead of standing up and said i witnessed this in it didn't look that bad at. i can't tell you what that does for people. i really can't. i don't care what things you might have done in your life. i know what's a whole lot because. they were raised that. they were complete respect.

but what you don't hear about is what happens to people when their kids are ripped away. and those kids come back broken but they come back to adults that are insane and that's the other half so nobody is ok. too. but the bank and ask all of the survivors to stand up for

a moment to be here with us survivors please stand. the children and the grandchildren of survivors please stand up as things began to change when the survivors of the residential school experience went to court beginning in the 1980 s. but not really successful until the mid 1990 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 i would mock i went he. i would not have said it and i'm sure. it was for him so that it.

was. just as he for me to be still. 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. why bubbly for what i put the children i could i could tell my grandchildren i could tell oh what a great privilege of north the evil of the. but with my own jailor it i can't. it hurts it's certainly the think but. 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 air of 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. were.

c 2 2 6 residential schools there's. a real week in canada. this is not. only about. resilience there's a whole lot of truth that to has been shared it's also about reconciliation and there's not going to be any truth conciliation in my telling or in new york i'm screwed it's. 2 or 3 or 4 generations. to work all this out to get is the history books and have become commonplace that the guy

next door know that in the future of canada will students 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 for here all of us to get. through the closing ceremonies of the truth and reconciliation commission had a 5 kilometer walk from gatineau quebec to the city hall inaudible it was approximately $7000.00 people participating. many natives many non-natives there was different church groups civic groups people just bringing their families out to participate and support the native americans. by the time the

commission's work ended almost 7 years later that we had established the credibility of the commission not only in the eyes of survivors but in the eyes of the country and the truth and reconciliation commission has brought an image of canada forward that now includes 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 tear see but more than just preserving these materials and survivors right across the country of 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 and sure

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. be i don't know or i didn't know really is no longer defensible. let's. go.

with the. you see the one. of the very day. in many interviews. 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.

nothing. resembling your. character. and i'm going to. say when there is unique they're expressing their. their culture in the. good and genuine things aboard. the color of the old sits for. the

dances the songs. when every residential school survivor is healed i'll be. going nuts that's how it went for me. until they're healed i will be on i'll keep talking to anybody who would listen. there's always hope without hope we're done. you know 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 5 of. its

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