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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    All these institutions of god trying to tell us our souls will be saved if we follow them. and that the “other” religions are prophligates, infidels, devils and heretics. LMAO

    I’ve yet to find one that isn’t hiding a history of butchery

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        The Burmese Buddhists are on board with the regimes genocide against the Rohingyas. The Sri Lankan Buddhist Sinhalese were quite happy to attempt to exterminate their Tamil population. Japanese Buddhists overwhelmingly supported the military regime in WW2.

        I’m not so familiar with Tibetan history, so I’ll not comment on that. But Buddhists as a whole don’t seem any more peaceful than anyone else.

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          care to share more for moi the uninformed?
          my country (sadly) was more about transporting slaves