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Sydney, Australia, Apr 28 (EFE).- Thousands of survivors and descendants of the so-called Stolen Generation, Australian indigenous children who were forcibly removed from their families in the 20th century, have launched a class action suit against the State, their legal representatives announced Wednesday.
An estimated 100,000 indigenous Australian minors were uprooted from their families between 1910 and 1970 and turned over to caucasian families or institutions as part of a “White Australia” policy that sought to assimilate minorities.
The lawsuit was filed in the New South Wales (NSW) Supreme Court, according to a statement from Shine Lawyers, which did not specify the amount of compensation sought.
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Hundreds of Indigenous Australians who were forcibly removed from their
families as children are suing the government in a class action launched on Wednesday seeks compensation for the injustice.
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Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youths were taken from
their homes and put in foster care with white families, under official
assimilation policies that persisted into the 1970s.
Now known as the Stolen Generations , they were routinely
punished for speaking their own languages or practising their culture, and many
never saw their parents or siblings again.