Court rejects'stolen children' claim 澳“被偷走的孩子”敗訴

The policy aimed to "civilise" Aborigines

當時的政策是為了“教化”土著居民

An Australian court has rejected a landmark claim for compensation by two Aborigines who claimed they were taken from their families as young children by the government.

The ruling will be a major setback to hundreds of other claimants from the so-called "stolen generation", as well as to the Aboriginal community, which is fighting for the government to acknowledge past injustices.

The Northern Territory Federal Court said the government was not liable to pay Peter Gunner and Lorna Cubillo compensation and punitive damages.

Mr Gunner and Ms Cubillo sued for psychological trauma, emotional distress and isolation from the cultural lives of their Aboriginal mothers.

Thousands of Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families and raised by whites in a government policy to "civilise" them.

The policy lasted for nearly a century until the 1960s.

兩名澳大利亞土著居民稱他們小時候被政府從家中帶走，因此提出了有標志意義的賠償訴訟。法庭判他們敗訴。

這一裁決對于其他許多被稱作“偷走的一代”的告狀者，以及一直在斗爭并要求政府承認自己過去的不道義行為的土著居民團體都是一個很大的打擊。

北方聯邦法庭說政府不能給予彼德-古納和勞納-庫比勞補償或是傷害賠償。

彼德-古納和勞納-庫比勞的控告理由是心理傷害、精神上的壓抑以及與土著母親的文化氛圍分離所帶來的孤獨。

按照政府“教化”土著居民的政策，成千上萬的土著孩子曾被強行從家中帶走并交由白人撫養。

這一政策持續了近一個世紀,一直到20世紀60年代才結束。