Hindus Want Australia To Apologize And Compensate Victims Of ‘Forced Adoptions’

Hindus want Australia to immediately apologize and compensate the victims of forced adoptions.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that these forced adoptions resulting in forced removal of children from their parents between 1940-70s were morally reprehensible and a dark stain on Australia. It was clearly a “national disgrace”; highly unethical and immoral; and very painful for the women involved, Zed added.

Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, argued that a formal national apology would be a “step in the right direction” for Australia, which would exhibit that it had “matured” as a nation. Besides Australian government, state governments, hospitals and other institutions involved with the practice should also offer formal apologies, he stated.

An Australian Senate committee has also called for a national apology on this issue. Roman Catholic Church in Australia reportedly issued a national apology last year over these past adoption practices. It is believed that over 150,000 women had their babies thus removed without their will. The government formally apologized in 2008 for the past wrongs committed on indigenous Australians.