NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
[with video]
One hundred and thirty children from Northern Ireland, some as young as five, were sent to Australia as child migrants, an inquiry has heard.
The experiences of 50 of them will be heard by the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) either by oral or written evidence.
It is examining the extent of child abuse in religious and state-run institutions in NI from 1922 to 1995.
A team from the inquiry has already made two trips to Australia.
HIA chairman Sir Anthony Hart said his staff had made the trip for two reasons – to enable those who lived there to have the same opportunity to describe their experiences as others, and to allow the HIA’s legal team to gather a considerable amount of information from their witness statements.
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