Richard King

I am a member of the British Stolen Generations. Since the nineteenth century, Britain has been trafficking children — racially categorised as “Good British Stock” — to its occupied colonies. Innocent children were forcibly recruited as tools of colonial policy. It is now acknowledged that many of us were misled to believe our parents had died. I can personally attest to the falsehood of the official claim that all child migrants were orphans. We were taken directly from our parents in 1949. I was ten, my sister was eight, and my brother was six. We became wards of the Victorian State. My brother never recovered.