Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera has drawn international attention to historic systemic abuse of Māori in state care, calling it a "quiet genocide".
Titled, 'A quiet genocide: The legacy of stolen indigenous children,' the piece was published by Al Jazeera on Wednesday.
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Between 1950 and the 1980s, 100,000 New Zealand children and vulnerable adults were taken into state care.
More than a 1000 people have since reported they were physically and sexually abused while in state care during that period.
By the 1970s, upwards of 80 percent of the children in state welfare institutions were Māori.
The article's author, Aaron Smale, writes "Indigenous peoples throughout English-speaking countries have had their children taken away by the state for generations. Most countries have faced up to this legacy. Will New Zealand now acknowledge its own Stolen Generations?"
The Labour Government has promised to launch an inquiry into the abuse of children in state care within its first 100 days in office.
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