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tv   Documentary  RT  January 26, 2023 9:30am-10:01am EST

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aging around the world, it's become sort of impermissible to speak out against these wars them about the ravages of nato. it's sort of a political 3rd rail. and in this case, and in many other cases that i've experienced, we've seen organizers who profess liberal values and profess to uphold free speech principles. immediately cave when they come under attack from online trolls . what just shows how up against the wall, the anti war movement is inside the supposedly democratic west, and what we're up against. there are very few venues that are willing to host us. there are very few, if any media outlets that are willing to entertain our views, and yet no one ever is willing to actually stand up and debate us on the same stage or explain exactly what we're getting wrong. it's about silencing us and be organizations to the extent did the elements behind these organized trolling campaigns function essentially as a proxy for a collective west intern,
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which is according to german foreign minister and alina burbock and her comments this week, waging war with russia. ah, as it ukraine conflict rages on, there's an increase in severely wounded people who've lost their lens on the battlefield. r t. sophia nunez explores one of the leading rehabilitation centers where doctors help russian army veterans and regular citizens get back on their feet. to day one and 3 people in the world are living with a health condition and benefits from rehabilitation and medical specialty focus on restoring and maintaining the highest possible quality of life after injury or illness. until recently, it has been viewed as more of a subsector of medicine. but as medical progress develops, enabling more and more people to survive major trauma and diseases, the benefits of rehabilitation become more clear. developed in the fifty's is a response to a large number of people have disabled after 2 world wars rehabilitation has been
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an irreplaceable form of treatment for combat related injuries. for example, last year, in the midst of the ukraine conflict, the governor of moscow region initiated and medical center with the goal of providing rehabilitation and prosthetic services to soldiers retired with combat related disabilities. the center also trips, sealants, joselle, but sandoval, those patients who are missing their lower limbs, have low mobility and getting them some medical help as well as treating their stumps is the main aim of fargo heavily taishan santa rehabilitation program so often tailor to an individual patient's needs as every case is unique and special. sure. so was what's happened has happen. life will be a little bit different. it will change a bit. it's not terrible for gardner sake. many walk around with prosthetics, with dancers, for example. and yet you said so it's all right. okay, one of of what plans do have for the future plan for the future?
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i'll probably goal to train as a supper and i will return there to get my leg. i need to find my all the speaker this medical specialty is proven to be a vital branch of medicine and its life changing results are finally getting desert attention. that's her up on the latest stories for this is our for more up to them and it is updates head over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on odyssey, rumble and up. thanks for joining in. we'll see you next hour. the
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price. each native person $25.00 for a piece of scalp for indian male. $15.00 for women. $15.00 for children. put me in jail, the quality reserve not part of canada. never be part of the school years technicians in terrible people.
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ah, it's impossible to forget what ah we always shy but tobacco? we call dish. wonder rock and it's a british sacred rock. it here and it's a big, big rock. and we call it a grandfather rock. we sank
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a grandfather for looking after us and taken care of us as we travel in school. they tried to tell us that this with savage, this was a pagan way of doing things here that's with the school. i was electrocuted twice. i was only 7 years old 1st too high for me, so somebody put me in the chair and my feet,
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they're up can even touch the floor and they turn to power on electricity. then you can't. wendy electricity goes, you can like goal. cuz the gen, the chris makes his tightness, he can't lie, go for you. you are tortured. i got ah, they made us because they went to their land. will they broke their children? what did i go? did this or do anything? i was just a child. with
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a blow cold edmond, our host is the former chief of this remote community in northern ontario in fort albany.
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canada has more than 2000 reserves like this one they were set up in the late 19th century by the indian act. the law governing the indigenous relation to this racist build, made them 2nd class citizens separate from white people. today they are known as 1st nations peoples. back then, they were savages. i am designated asked indian o lives inside i reserve to separate the we are hidden. people of canada here and here the government wants the color reserve for the i call it my grandfather's land.
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the indian act is still applicable to day. it was introduced in an attempt to settle and thus better control and nomadic people along with their territory and resources. the reserves were run by nuns and priests, and their mission was to evangelize the savages to assimilate them were building it . hey, garden, over with her pictures from a school. so this one is good. this is her, the students, girls, the months. and these are the brothers. are blade brothers. and that prisoners are here. it's hard
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to resist. at that time, very hard to resist. ah, ah, in from the age of 4 or 5 children were torn from their families and handed over to missionaries to be educated. they were sent to what were referred to as residential schools. ah, the system was mandatory under the indian any families refusing to release their children or persecuted oh and denied the meagre state allowance because i had long hair and i put it in rate. so somebody comes behind
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me, cuts my brain off. my hair falls over, it looks like this. ah . as soon as the children or anything that identified them as indian was eliminated, their clothes were burned. they were forbidden to speak their own language. ah, they were issued with a uniform and a number is going to be the 1st is that's way we want to be ready for the aim was to make them good little white children and good little christians. i mean edmond and his cousin spent their childhood at saint dan's the school on their reserve, our building if they didn't leave until they were 15. i
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remember in my 1st day i remember looking at my mom, 2 of the were walking mom. she was very quiet and somebody else took me by them, but by then i was overwhelmed with the school. i didn't see my mom living until she was gone. and then when i tried to run back or go after her, they closed the door. and the you cried, you know, it's like luke, while losing her mum, you're losing your losing your mom is come up on this is canceled. no 4 ears. the 2 cousins suffered cruelty and ill treatment.
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it was an experience that marked them for life. even though the escape the very worst of the abuse the rapes cost o a dead sea brother boy abusing a child and took them from the dormitory on the 3rd floor, brought him down to the basement. and as where he attacked a girl yogurt, bathroom usage, where they are famous. he put down, i had the year 2 whole tier 2 voyager. they were like, oh butterfield i could never sleep because i always knew there was something there somebody, i could hear somebody moving our owner just it was the worst part for me was always waiting every night just like there was somebody there that's gonna grab you that's no place to be for any child.
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ah, we all came home with a dark secret generation after generation. well, st downs is an infamous school. it was only one of dozens. in a little over a century, 150000 children attended these institutions. ah, 4000 of them lost their lives. the last residential school closed down in 1996. i think the children, when you eliminate all their knowledge of their history, their culture, then you're basically killing the people that grew up on these lamps. that knew the
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lab that were connected to the lab and that's what these policies were predict the indian out of the bush, to take the indian the way from the bush, berlin, and assimilate him indoctrinate him with genocide, i guess it was the way of killing a people, but way of killing a, a culture, a nation. killed indian yet. mm hm. ah, ah,
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lou, i can assure you roughly where the school is burned down. fire took it by accident. we don't know. a take me to court. i don't know. only the fire knows for happy the missionaries are gone and now we can do our own find our own way. we don't need to poop. we don't need the pope to tell us what to do with a school us right here. because 3 stories building is big
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enough for 200 students with you know what we never gave missionaries. we never show them our tears. we never cried . he can be slapped around like this. bang, bang, bang, bang, bang right, right on your head and face, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, and kneel on the floor and eat your vomit electrocution. but i'm still here. i'm still standing up, but they're gone. with the last traces of the missionaries presence are to be found nearby in the reserve . okay. just follow me. i'll make a trailer here. it's an infamous
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a place. nobody comes to any more. these abandoned huts were the priests, summer residences. it's too dirty. you don't want to be here. bad spirits here. rather la, used to run over here after your bish somebody and run here and she kept solution in no weapon south. there's a whip there, punish himself. everybody saw him running away from the school. so they said i did it again. now again, he was running all the time to to the cabin here, sir brittany or something i have been ah. abandoned since the late 1990 s. the huts are almost intact.
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time has stood still. ah, the ghosts are all that remains of the trauma that haunts edmond and the 1st nations peoples every single day. ah, that's how i grew up in it is really hard to to get over that. how do you get over that? when they wake up in jail? got thank
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with coal drives, everyone from the sidewalk. they are the only ones left street indians. the image of the dying people tempted by a better life. first nations, a youth flee the poverty of the reserves, and end up here at the end of the road. in thunder bay, a daily grind of alcohol and drugs and the life of misery that no one pays any attention to any more. in the frozen downtown
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streets you survive anyway, you can oh, i was a raised university now 48. october is a survivor veritable miracle. like the rest of his family. people most of the last generation taught by nuns and priests with for a long time drowned his pain and helpful like almost half the men in his community . for youth, this music is kept me alive, kept me alive, and all these years now is 11. 12 years old man going to voice
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code excursions, priest like and c name ralph roy, you know, you know, are all for took advantage of a lot of a lot of us there was a winter boys walking on the ice going to the trap line. and we couldn't go back because we're already, we crossed the lake going in the bush and night time, the police decided to come and sleep said me why my sleeping way towards the night air and zip my zip my my my sleeping bag and grab the manners and go,
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i can hear some of them are my relatives and didn't make it jigging themselves to death over doses, suicide manual. and i've done that before. i put a gun there before, stick a needle in my arm to hoping to overdose. and i've been to jail, you know, got drug charges. i got a domestic violence beating up my ex wife, being out my girlfriends. and that's what that's it's, it's hard for her 3rd, the scary thing to talk. what in his plight, otto has been able to count on his and yeah,
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coffee market. i know his lucky star coffee creek hacker i'm from the bare plan. you said it was my grandmother. she always said to me, i never go to bed with dirty dishes on the table because little people walk around at night, spit on things as to why people get sick. she says, that's what they do. i usually try and do my dishes before i go to sleep all the time. i know suffered a lot too. when the residential schools it is a memory she still finds hard to talk about well, i have when i had my parents a year, so i can say he's 20 here. what i have to say. so natalie say,
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now it is mad only talking about it. but yeah, it made me, it made me the person i am today because i'm afraid i don't give up with anything i know has always wanted to break the vicious circle of trauma. she remained silent on the subject to protect grandchildren and spare them the fate that befalls most of the communities. youngsters. ah,
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unlike their loved ones, they have not experienced residential schools. ah, yet all seem to carry the burden and 43 percent. the 1st nation youths between the ages of 12 and 24 have addiction issues. women are the biggest victims. in canada, indigenous women are 7 times more likely to die or to be killed than white women. victims of the violence inflicted by men, whether white or indigenous, broken by the inherited trauma of colonization, we are targeted as easy prey who this time aside phenomenon was acknowledged by the state
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after a 2 year nationwide study ah, [000:00:00;00] with i am a product of the residential school i was raped by a priest when i was young on my reserve. i was raped by 2 police officers here in thunder bay, one of 20012014. i've been beaten by men by my partners. really bad, where my doctor,
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my doctor file is about that thick with pictures of you couldn't even recognize my face. broken bones no more stolen sisters, a bill with golden sisters more than 4000 of them in 30 years. a phenomenon rooted in the country's history. ah
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