interview with reverend Kevin Annett
Channel: UNSERPOLITIKBLOG
Date: 19/05/2015

At the16.04.2015, Kevin Annett has given us an interview on the ITCCS and on the residential schools in Canada. Kevin Annett has become, during his then occupation as a reverend for the  United Church of Canada via talks with parishioners, aware of the crimes, which had been done in the compulsory residential schools („Indian residential schools“) against Indian children in Canada for more than 100 years until their closure in 1996, and which have cost the lives of about 50,000 Indian children during that time. In May 2010, he has founded together with groups from Ireland, England, USA, Canada, and Italy, the ITCCS. It has the aim to hold the Vatican, further churches, and governments responsible for crimes against children and against humanity. According to their own statement, the ITCCS has, until 2013, been represented in 26 countries. The judicial arm of the  ITCCS is the „International Common Law Court of Justice“ (ICLCJ), a non-governmental court on common law basis. Regarding the „Indian residential schools“, it has investigated against persons from Canada, Great Britain, and the Vatican, and has published judgements.
The Canadian residential schools have had in their beginning a very high death rate particularly by diseases and insufficient nutrition, but aso by direct violence including abuse, maltreatment, and murder, which has significantly declined later, which hints at a change of strategy away from eradication to assimilation. An essential motive for taking away the children has been land grabbing, also in view of timber and mineral resources. Even Indian chiefs and (regarding fled children) the Canadian police had been involved in the system of persecution and assimilation against the Indian children, which does not make easier the legal reappraisal within Canada. The land grabbing exists, according to Kevin Annett, still today, and instead of the residential schools, today the transfer of Indian children to white-coloured foster families has an assimilating effect still today. The Canadian indian act still imposes discriminating restrictions on Indigenous people, e. g. regarding land ownership.........http://unser-politikblog.blogspot.de/2015/05/kevin-annett-of-international-tribunal.html