Kevin Annett Assaulted

Kevin Annett Assaulted


Annett, who exposed the murder of Indian children in church-operated residential schools in Canada, was beaten in Vancouver





Human Rights activist Kevin Annett assaulted in Vancouver
UPDATE January 11, 2010 Vancouver
Rev. Kevin Annett was assaulted by two men in Vancouver's downtown eastside last Wednesday just two days after he published an article on church and government complicity in child trafficking on Canada's west coast.
Rev. Annett suffered cuts, bruises, and at least one broken rib as a result of the unprovoked beating by two men, one of whom is linked to a downtown church agency.
(PHOTO) Kevin Annett, right, with Squamish Chief Kiapilano at a protest outside Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Vancouver, March 2008
Today, after being beaten, Annett released a new article on the role of Vancouver police in sex crimes
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2010/01/kevin-annett-canadas-police-involved-in.html
“Ten of the last dozen women to be taken to the killing site at Piggy’s Palace were accompanied by Mounties or regular cops. You think it was just Willie Picton who was killing them?”

In a statement released today, Rev. Annett said,
"I have waited to comment on the attack because of my need to rest and recover, but concerns from many people have prompted me to go public with what happened to me.
"Last Wednesday, January 6, at around 9 am, I was assisting a woman facing eviction collect her belongings at a rooming house at 566 Powell street in Vancouver's downtown eastside. Two men suddenly burst into the room, and one of them, a tall, strongly built Caucasian man named Dave who apparently is the manager of the building and a former employee of the Union Gospel Mission, began punching and kicking me. I received severe bruises on my neck and back, and a bruised and possibly broken rib because of this attack.
"At no time did he or his accomplice, another strongly built Caucasian man who witnessed the beating, say why they were attacking me. The woman who I was assisting is a former sex trade worker who is now homeless, and who in the past has provided me with information concerning the disappearance of women in the downtown eastside.
"This assault occurred just two days after an article I wrote entitled 'Child Trafficking in Beautiful British Columbia' in The Agora newspaper was widely disseminated in the downtown eastside of Vancouver. The article describes the documented complicity of churches, the police and the government in the trafficking of children in protected pedophile networks in B.C. I therefore believe there is a connection between the publicizing of this story and the attack made on me. This incident represents yet another case of repression aimed at community activists by the 2010 Olympic security forces and police, and other unknown parties."
Rev. Annett, who for fifteen years has led the campaign to bring to justice the churches and government responsible for genocide in Canada's Indian Residential Schools, made international news in October 2009 when he held the first memorial service for missing native children outside the Vatican in Rome.
Rev. Annett, school survivors and native elders have also led high profile protests and occupations of churches in Vancouver and Toronto since 2005, and on many occasions Annett has been threatened by church officials and police.
Rev. Annett will be returning to Rome and Europe in April with residential school survivors to confront Pope Benedict over the fate and buried location of thousands of children who died in Catholic Indian schools in Canada.
For more information contact Kevin Annett at: 250-753-3345 or through this email.
Released by The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (Vancouver)
From: William Annett, Kevin Annett's father
TO: The Right Honourable Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
Ottawa, Canada
Dear Mr. Prime Minister:
You are fully aware who Reverend Kevin Annett is.
In case you've forgotten, I remind you that more than any other individual, it was his work and sacrifice over 17 years that made inevitable your “apology” to the victims and survivors of the Indian Residential Schools, which you delivered in the House of Commons in June, 2008.
On Wednesday, January 6, 2010, Kevin Annett was savagely assaulted and beaten up by two thugs in downtown Vancouver. Expertly – broken ribs, bruises and contusions that don't show, just as the whole sickening history of these government-mandated schools doesn't show.
Not surprisingly, this attack occurred two days after Kevin's dissemination of an article describing in detail the organized child-trafficking industry in B..C. (with the complicity of government, churches and law enforcement agencies), and 24 hours following his media release decrying the attempts by the city and province to sanitize Vancouver for the emolument of the Olympic international press corps – at the expense of the homeless in the downtown east side.
I cannot accuse, because we cannot identify the source of this brutality. But I do know – and you have the means of discovering – who those responsible are. Certainly, the perpetrators exist somewhere within the following organizations, these sanctimonious Canadian institutions (still shielded by your government) who have ostracized, vilified and persecuted Kevin Annett, trashing his life since 1992, and aided in default by the gutless Canadian media who have known the truth since 1907:
The Canadian Government/ the Department of Indian Affairs
The United Church of Canada
The Anglican Church of Canada
The Roman Catholic Church
The RCMP
The Vancouver Police Department
Certain Tribal Councils and Chiefs (“establishment Indians”)
Within these organizations, whoever is responsible, hear this:
I am Kevin's very proud father. You are messing with a family that has fought and died for Canada since 1825.
We do not ASK, neither do we REQUEST, neither do we PLEAD.
We simply state as follows, borrowing the metaphor from William Jennings Bryan:
Thou shalt not crucify this man on the cross of of your brutality and power;
No longer shall you press down upon his brow
The thorns of your oppression.
This will not happen again.
--William Annett



UPDATE: Thank you, from Kevin Annett
Thurs., Jan. 14, 2010
Dear friends,

I am overwhelmed by all of the messages of concern and support sent to me by you after the assault against me. Thank you, especially to Brenda, who made this possible.

I figure the best way for me to show my appreciation is to carry on in my work to expose those responsible for the past and ongoing murder of innocent children in our midst - so I have continued to publish the evidence and name the proven names of perpetrators.

This work is culminating in my next trip to Europe, with residential school survivors, in early April of 2010, when we will be confronting the Pope in Rome and demanding that he and his church repatriate the remains of children who died under their control.

Please follow this campaign on our website www.hiddenfromhistory.org . If you are able to contribute to our efforts to raise $3000 to bring survivors with me to Rome, please contact me at: hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca or at 250-753-3345 in Canada.

Strength and love to all of you,

Kevin Annett - Eagle Strong Voice
Occupied Coast Salish territory

Read and Hear the truth of Genocide in Canada, past and present, at this website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org , and watch Kevin's award-winning documentary film UNREPENTANT on the same website.