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London, UK: Monday, May 30, 2011

On the verge of his addressing a major public rally in London against child trafficking by church and state, Rev. Kevin Annett was arrested and detained in an immigration prison at Stansted airport last night for over 12 hours, and then deported from England without due cause.

Border officials detained Kevin at 8 pm Sunday night upon his return from speaking in the Netherlands, and deported him the next morning, after fingerprinting, photographing and jailing him in a crowded immigration prison cell.

“The only reason they gave for denying me re-entry into England was that my giving public lectures was not an appropriate activity for visitors to that country, if you can believe that”  Kevin Annett said today in a press statement.

“But I’ve repeatedly mentioned my lecturing work to customs people whenever I enter England, and it’s never been an issue before now. And the cop who detained me admitted that the decision to deny me entry came after he consulted his supervisor and the computer files about me.”

Kevin was detained by British customs police and members of the private security firm Reliance, which operates the airport detention facilities and growing numbers of prisons in England.

While detained, Kevin was denied the right to communicate with others, and the arresting officers refused to give him their names or badge numbers. This morning, Kevin was sent back to his departure point in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

“This was obviously aimed at our ITCCS tribunal, to prevent its convening this September in London. But nothing will halt our campaign for the murdered and tortured children. This only shows how scared these villains are of exposure.”

A complete description of the incident, and Kevin’s public statement, will follow shortly.

Issued by the Executive, The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS)

Rev. Kevin Annett (left) at the Protest the Pope March last September in London, England

Rev. Kevin Annett (right) outside Canada House in Trafalgar Square

To whom it may concern,

During a recent visit I made to the National Portrait Gallery in London, I was shocked to observe on display in one of your galleries a portrait of the infamous General Geoffrey Amherst, a British officer who by his own admission ordered the dissemination of smallpox-infected blankets among the Mi’kmaq Indians of Nova Scotia during the 1740′s.

Amherst’s order to his subordinate, a Major Bouquet, is documented in his own hand writing in his journal, which was recently published by the Mi’kmaq Nation.

Your display made no reference to this murderous action by Amherst, but simply described him as a loyal and victorious officer who was knighted by the Crown for his actions in the wars against the French in Canada.

As a publicly-funded educational institution, you have a duty of care and a legal responsibility to display history accurately and truthfully, which in the case of Geoffrey Amherst, you have not done. By appearing to conceal the proven fact of Amherst’s complicity in Genocide, you bring disrepute not only to your institution but to the Crown as well.

I urge your researchers and officers to consult my research on the issue of genocide in Canada, including Amherst’s smallpox war against the Mi’kmaqs, by accessing my book Hidden No Longer: Genocide in Canada, Past and Present (2010), at www.hiddennolonger.com . I will gladly provide you with a hard copy of this book, which has been quoted in the Canadian Parliament and at the United Nations.

I also request that you incorporate this research and information about Amherst into your display, or explain publicly why you refuse to do so.

Finally, I am sending a copy of this letter to the government of England, the United Nations, the world media, and the Mi’kmaq Nation, who I expect will also contact you over this grave matter.

I look forward to your reply,

sincerely,

Reverend Kevin D. Annett

An Update, with thanks to Jim Windle of Teka News

Brampton, Ontario

For the first time in Canadian history, a public museum will exhibit evidence which makes reference to overtly genocidal policies by both the churches and government of Canada towards indigenous people, including in the deadly Indian residential schools.

Relying primarily on the research gathered by Rev. Kevin Annett in his book Hidden No Longer: Genocide in Canada, Past and Present (2010, www.hiddennolonger.com), the aboriginal advisory committee of the new Peel Region Heritage Museum in Brampton, Ontario convinced the Museum designers, Vilnis Cultural Design Works, to establish a display that shows that genocide, according to the United Nations’ definition of the crime, did occur in the Indian residential school system.

The schools were established and run jointly by the Vatican and the Crown of England in 1834, and continued until 1996. According to government statistics, nearly half of the 150,000 children in these schools died because of treatment and conditions there.

The decision to document this genocide in the new Peel Region Museum was forced by the Advisory committee’s chair, Allan Jamieson of the Haudenosaunee Nation, who faced major opposition from Vilnis to include the term “genocide” in the Museum displays.

“We want to tell our story about what happened to our people, and is still happening in Canada, and we want Canadians and others to learn about it, and we don’t want to sugar coat it” said Jamieson to Teka News this week.

“As victims of this genocide, we have a right to characterize for ourselves how we have been, and still are mistreated. The committee’s work does not include having to convince the Vilnis team of genocide in Canada … It is truly tiring and demeaning to have to try to convince learned people about accurate history.”

Allan Jamieson, who has consulted Rev. Annett in the past, has also learned that Canadian government agencies make up about one third of Vilnis’ business. Their list of clients includes companies that also benefit from the dispossession of First Nations lands including a home builders association, a mining association, and a pulp and paper company.

Until now, not a single Canadian Museum has displayed the evidence of the massive mortality level in Indian residential schools or of their deliberate murder and crimes, documented in archived letters and testimonies published by Rev. Annett since 1998.

“It’s an incredible breakthrough” commented Rev. Annett today in London, England, where he is working with an International Tribunal to bring charges against Canada and its churches for genocide.

“Thanks to the persistence of Allan Jamieson and his people, the truth of crimes against humanity in Canada is finally being formally acknowledged, and taught to the next generation. The walls of denial are tumbling, and a huge leap has now been made towards bringing those responsible to justice.”

The London-based International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) has been endorsed by over thirty organizations, including survivors of child abuse in nine nations, as well as seven different indigenous nations across Canada.

- information from the files of Teka News, Brantford, Ontario, Vol. 42, issue 19, May 11, 2011