15 November 2009

NEWS: UK Child Migrants Apology Planned

NEWS: UK Child Migrants Apology Planned
Gordon Brown is to apologise for the UK's role in sending thousands of its children to former colonies in the 20th century, the BBC has learned. Under the Child Migrants Programme - which ended just 40 years ago - poor children were sent to a "better life" in Australia, Canada and elsewhere. But many were abused and ended up in institutions or as labourers on farms.

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