[news] Genocide in Canada

Fri Jul 23 15:29:26 PDT 2004

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Genocide in Canada

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    BC United Church source confirms program to systematically destroy
    documents related to crimes against First Nations inclucing rape,
    torture, murder, sexual sterilization, organ removal, and an
    organized pedophile and sex slavery network.

http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/149245.php

Genocide in Canada
by The Executive

New evidence that the United Church of Canada destroyed documents
proving its crimes:
'Operation Clean Sweep'

- for public circulation and reprinting -

Vancouver, July 13, 2004:
A highly placed, confidential source within the British Columbia
Conference of the United Church of
Canada has confirmed for a second time the existence of a program to
systematically destroy documents related to crimes committed against
Native people in that church's Indian residential schools and hospitals.

These crimes include rape, torture, murder, sexual sterilization, organ
removal, and an organized
pedophile and sex slavery network involving senior church officials,
politicians, judges and RCMP
officers across B.C.

According to the source, the program to destroy these documents was
entitled "Operation Clean Sweep," and was initiated on February 8, 1996
as a result of a confidential directive from the General Council of the
United Church of Canada in Toronto.

The directive was issued by United Church General Secretary Virginia
Coleman in the wake of the
commencing (on February 3, 1996) of the first class action lawsuit
against the United Church by fifteen
native survivors of the notorious Alberni residential school, operated
by the United Church from 1925 to 1974.

The directive was labelled "Strictly Confidential," and was sent to
church officials in B.C. It was
prompted as well by the public statements of former United Church
minister Rev. Kevin Annett and an
eyewitness to murder at the Alberni school, Harriett Nahanee, both of
whom had been quoted in the Vancouver Sun in December, 1995 as saying
that native children were killed and secretly buried behind the Alberni
residential school.

According to the church source, "Ginny Coleman wanted the whole thing
buried quickly, which is why she also came out to Port Alberni in March
of 1996 to square things with the local Indian chiefs and get them on
side. She told the chiefs that they'd never see a dime of church money
for residential school settlements if they had anything to do with
Kevin Annett and any investigation into the deaths of children in the
church schools. She also made it clear that all documents related to
these allegations had to be destroyed."

Operation Clean Sweep resulted in the destruction of medical records
concerning the organized and
involuntary sterilization of non-Christian Indian men and women at the
church's R.W. Large Memorial Hospital in Bella Bella, B.C., between
1929 and 1975, and possibly later.

"A hospital administrator named Barb Brown arranged to have the
sterilization records dumped in the ocean during March, 1996, and then
again in July. All of the records contained annotated payment receipts
from the Department of Indian Affairs in Ottawa, which was helping to
fund the sterilizations. But it was church missionary doctors like
George Darby who did the procedure, whose aim was simply to stop pagan
Indians from breeding. That's what had Coleman and the other so
worried, since they knew the sterilizations proved Genocide."

According to the source, this destruction of evidence was not confined
to the sterilization evidence.

"It covered the whole gamut. Any correspondence that referred to the
deaths of children while in church custody had to go. Any record of
pedophilia by ministers - there was lots of that - it all had to be
destroyed no later than April 30, 1996."

By far the most disturbing revelation of this source is his
confirmation of the official cover-up of a
Native-run pedophile network involving church and government officials
in B.C.

"What really got Ginny and others scared was the kiddy sex ring shit
coming out. Everyone in the old boys' network of B.C. Conference knows
about it, since a lot of them are gay and pedophiles themselves. But
the link to the Alberni residential school is what really prompted
Clean Sweep, since there were living eyewitnesses suddenly suing the
church who could testify that the pedophile ring got started out of
that residential school in the 1940's, after the church was made legal
guardian of the students there
by the feds.

"The point is, this shit is still going on, not just at the Vancouver
Club. It pervades the whole system, and the church is just one cover
for it."

While confirming previous allegations made by Native eyewitnesses
themselves, the source in question is the first non-native person, and
United Church official, to explain the reason for the sustained
cover-up and smear campaign against Rev. Kevin Annett engineered by the
United Church since the spring of 1996 in regard to its residential
school crimes.

Former B.C. Conference secretaries Brian Thorpe and Debra Bowman, who
helped coordinate Operation Clean Sweep, have refused to comment on the
allegations of this source. No official of the national church has
responded to our phone calls or e-mails.

The source of these latest allegations is a senior United Church
minister who retired several years ago
and whose "extremely troubled conscience" prompted him to contact
members of The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada.

This new evidence has been forwarded to international police and human
rights bodies, and to the world press, prior to further action.

Issued by The Executive,
The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada
July 13, 2004
Vancouver, Canada

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