2000: Australia-Aboriginal children who were removed from their families

 Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser calls for a national apology for the "stolen generations,” the one in ten Aboriginal children who were removed from their families between 1920 and 1971 in a government effort to "civilize" them by assimilation into white society.

To: 
Aboriginal children removed from their families
From: 
Australia
Year of Apology: 
2000
Footnote: 
“The Stolen Generation.” Time. October 2, 2000.