PHOTO: The Kinchela Boys Home was run by the NSW Government for almost 50 years
Earlier this month, The Guardian reported multiple potential ‘clandestine’ burials on the former Kinchela Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home site, an institution of cultural genocide and abuse during the Stolen Generation. Now, survivors of the home are calling for the potential graves to be excavated.
As reported, at least nine suspicious sites were identified by a ground-penetrating radar which searched some of the property.
The sites are thought to be clandestine graves, that is done secretly and potentially illegally, rather than a Christian burial.
Since the potential grave sites were revealed, the Kinchela Boys’ Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC) – which is made up of survivors – has called for all identified anomalies to be immediately prioritised for excavation, and for the Kempsey site to be searched for additional disturbances…