Exclusive: former residents of Kinchela, near Kempsey, call on NSW government to excavate site after ground-penetrating radar picked up at least nine suspicious anomalies
Multiple sites of possible secret or “clandestine” burials have been discovered on the grounds of one of the most violent and abusive institutions of the Stolen Generations era – Kinchela Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home on the north coast ofAt least nine “suspicious” sites of possible graves have been identified by experts surveying the area using ground-penetrating radar , Guardian Australia can reveal.
If human remains are found in those areas, the report said “they would likely be of the clandestine burial type and not typical Christian burials”. They also want excavation at the high-priority areas to determine whether some may be children who died at Kinchela and were buried in secret. Kinchela was run by the Aborigines Protection Board, later called the Aborigines Welfare Board, under the NSW government from 1924 until it closed in 1970. An estimated 400 to 600 Aboriginal boys between the ages of five and 15 were taken away from their families and incarcerated there under the laws and policies of the Stolen Generations.
“I never had much to do with him myself. I didn’t get ... it’s only the other boys. I think he used to do it. It was very sickening. It’s hard to speak about it now,” Uncle Vince, who died in 2020, said in an oral history interview in 2001.“Each and every day you got a flogging. Some of the boys said trivial things like they might have said someone’s name. They’d get you sent down the line,” Uncle Roger said.
“They just have to do the right thing and get it all done. Because we’re just guessing until then, and we just want a bit of peace and truth. I’m 76. So I haven’t got that long left, and I want to see it before I die.”
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