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The home, which was run by an order of Catholic nuns and closed in 1961, was one of many such institutions that housed tens of thousands of orphans and unmarried pregnant women who were forced to give up their children throughout much of the 20th century.

In 2014, historian Catherine Corless tracked down death certificates for nearly 800 children who died at the home in Tuam between the 1920s and 1961 — but could only find a burial record for one child.

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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not making CCP any better here, but truth is truth and doesn't care about your feelings. Was it China's business to invade Tibet? No, but pre-CCP Tibet was a corrupt theocratic state similar to Iran and Renaissance-era Vatican.

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

And what's your source for any of this, I can bring up multiple sources for the atrocities done by the CCP on their own citizens (tiananmen square massacre) and those of neighboring nations, can you back up any of what you claim about Tibet, and even if it were true that does not give China any rights to invade them. Should the other countries invade China for their corrupt leaders then?

[-] FruitLips@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Unhelpful American chiming in: if the Finns, or Danes are feeling feisity we could really use a regime change..

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

I don't want those fuckers taking over, building saunas and nice bakeries everywhere, forcing us to have government accountability, good universal healthcare and employment rights.

Actually, I may have spoken too soon...

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

Amongst others these:

Both the old theocratic feudal state and the CCP oppressed state are bad

@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world is not a "Sino-Shill", none is questioning the atrocities of the CCP. Please re-read this thread.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You could literally google and see sources what life was like in Tibet before. China is bad, and Tibet before was bad. Many things can be true at the same time. It is just the fact of life. No one is backing up China, it is only you problem if that is you are being emotional on a factual statement.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Take a deep cleansing breath. Now look at it with this more neutral framing: the last time the lamas were in power, what was it like? Was it some ideal, benign society or not?

And whether life under the CCP is any better is a separate question. From what I can tell, there's been a systematic effort by the CCP to extinguish all aspects of Tibetan national identity. That's probably Han racism packaged as anti-nationalism, but regardless, it's shitty and slow-motion genocidal.

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