I would like NZ to respect their obligations to the UN Convention Against Torture. We want an independent and impartial investigation of our cases. We want a public and unreserved apology. We want public acknowledgement of what occurred. We want a Royal Commission or Commission of Inquiry that is independent, impartial, open and public (we don’t want our histories buried by a government in damage control which forms the CLAS which is forbidden from making a public or ministerial comment). Yes, shockingly we want what was afforded to institutional abuse survivors in every other commonwealth jurisdiction – an inquiry that acknowledges and validates our trauma We want to protect future generations of children from the monsters we encountered as children through policies and law. With public knowledge comes public accountability. Thus, we want a public inquiry. Your government through the CLAS has engaged in a cynical cover-up We want adequate redress for the carnage that the abuse caused. We want access to the courts where the State doesn’t invoke the statute of limitations defences. Basically, all political smoke and mirrors aside, we want NZ to respect its obligations to the UNCAT. Until then we will keep fighting. The NZ state abused me once- shame on you. But to abuse me twice – shame on me. Isn’t going to happen and we aren’t going away until we get meaningful justice. And the NZ Governments inaction to do anything meaningful about it. We have never been offered any rehab to get over the trauma we where put through and the govt has spent in excess of 20 million on lawyers fighting us at the UN and making it as difficult as they can to prevent us having our say
and as for the NZ Police investigation and then their apology for overlooking an eyewitness to at least one case and so Dr Selwyn Leeks could have been brought to justice for the torture and sexual abuse he put us threw I escaped lake Alice and lived in fear like an escaped criminal from 15 till I was 36 and found out the place had been closed down my whole life was stolen by being put into lake Alice as a ward of the state I still have vivid nightmares even today which affects my whole family I have permanent memory loss and cognitive problems due to all the ECT most while I was awake and naked locked in a cell with nothing but a bucket for a toilet and you say all NZers have an equal chance at life! So I rot on an invalids benefit because ACC refuse to recognize ECT as medical misadventure and never had access to get treatment for this as most MPs have selective memory as well here is so info
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