LAWS 3908 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: African National Congress, Settler Colonialism, Class Action
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Week 2 - truth and reconciliation commissions in canada and south. It was a result of a court settlement, the entire movement however, was made up solely of survivors and not the government. There is no legal agreement between the algonquin community for the land. We are sitting on land where the legal status is very dubious. Class action lawsuit by survivors of church-run indian residential schools. About 150,000 children were forced to attend the irs; many of those children died from abuse, malnutrition, medical neglect, fleeing the schools etc. In addition, many of those children were sexually and physically abused. 345 million people were forcefully resettled; homelands were subject to massive amounts of violence. Massive redistribution of south africans to predominantly white individuals. 1948: formal establishment of apartheid (strict racial segregation and hierarchy) The armed struggle against the apartheid (african national congress (anc) and others. ) 1990-1994: apartheid regime loses power, negotiates transition with opposition movements.
