May 28,1998---Madeleine Kobel Albright

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Taiwan Tati Cultural
And Educational Foundation
B16F, No.3 Ta-Tun 2St.
Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
May 28, 1998.

Dear Mrs. Madeleine Korbel Albright,

We always to say something for my respectful person.

As we have verdicted that formally apology by their government is tough issue, isn't it?

"Comfort women" at whole World War II, that government of Japan ignore it, never apology. On the other hand aboriginal policy in Australia never apologized by government, also.

"The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and men must be proclaimed and denounced" Frederick Douglass said that(1817-1895).

About sixty five years ago, from the 1910s until the early 1970s, state and federal government policies sanctioned the removal of as many as 100,000 Aboriginal Children from their families and placed in government care, in the belief that the race would die out.

Many Children were physically and sexually abused, put to work as virtual slave labor and never saw siblings or parents again.

It is a pity; Australia Prime Minister John Howard who has previously expressed personal regret at the removal policies, repeated that he will not apologize on behalf of the government and the people.

The government has argued all Australians should not fell guilty about past policies with which they had nothing to do and which at the time were considered well-meaning, Aborigines contest this.

On the contrast; De Vries was among the Aboriginal elders who were presented Tuesday(May 26, 1998) with more than 600 "Sorry Books" filled with the notes and

signatures of an estimated 500,000 Australians who offered their personal apologies to the so called stolen generations following "Sorry Day" and named after "Sorry Business" an Aboriginal term for ceremonies of sadness or grief.

Howard said "Although in a personal sense many Australians will fell sorrow and regret in relation to past injustices suffered'It is the view of my government that a formal national apology is not appropriate" "More appropriate to addressing Aborigines continuing disadvantage was to improve their health, housing and education" he said.

From the history of view; a formally apology by government, churches and other authorities involved in the Children's removal; would be a long time for Aborignal's waiting.

 

Sincerely Yours,
Yang Hsu-Tung.
President of
Taiwan Tati Cultural
And Educational Foundation

 

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