Torrent truth and reconciliation

Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. We have neither time, interest nor energy to get serious and be genuinely engaged in anything related to truth and reconciliation.

Oil is one of the enriching things that enchant us and hold us captive, like a moth to a flame. Cult leaders and their exercise of power is another. Currently, the oil is like that white rabbit that skilled magicians pull from hats.

Guyanese are hypnotised and distracted by the practiced hand movements of the magicians we have for political leaders that we lose sight of the bigger picture. That is, what the supporting cast of trusted helpers are engaged in right before our eyes, and in their corruptions. But just so that there is the mistaken impression that this editorial is about oil, we quickly correct such a misconception.

This is about truth and reconciliation, and how something that should matter so much to us and it does very highly , we could care less about, for all the attention and energy that we invest in it. We deliberately use oil as part of our urgently needed truth and reconciliation background, because of its harsh and bitter and painful lessons known from other societies that have had much longer association with this most quarrelsome of commodities.

It is because whatever passions and prejudices were there before in any poor struggling society multiplied hundredfold, once the news came that oil was discovered in bountiful commercial quantities.

Since Canada is a Commonwealth nation , Queen Elizabeth released her own message regarding the day. Queen Elizabeth published the message on the royal family's Twitter account in both English and French, Canada's two official languages. The national day was created shortly after hundreds of Indigenous children's remains were found in unmarked graves around the sites of former residential schools.

Between and , the Canadian government ran Indian Residential Schools in the nation, separating , Indigenous children from their families by forcing them to attend. The Christian schools were an effort to "assimilate" the children into Canadian society, but resulted in rampant abuse and deaths from disease. According to the Canadian government's website , "The day honours the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities.

Ad Hoc Truth and Reconciliation Commission participate in healing restorative justice circles. Facebook Comments. Arabia Parkey, News Reporter.

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