RT.com In The Now - Duplessis Orphanage, Canada's Genocide
The investigate magazine Freedom
recounts of one of the most horrendous Duplessis Orphan experiences on record.
The experimentation conducted on Duplessis Orphans during the 1940's and 1950
may have been much more horrific that it was previously thought to be.
This last of the Duplessis Orphans
articles may not be for the faint of heart.
The investigate magazine Freedom
recounts of one of the most horrendous Duplessis Orphan experiences on record.
The experimentation conducted on
Duplessis Orphans during the 1940's and 1950 may have been much more horrific
that it was previously thought to be.
Sylvio Albert Day was orphaned from
birth. Day was a Duplessis Orphan, who was institutionalized for many years of
his life. As a teen he performed hard labor outdoors even in the coldest winter
conditions. Inside the institutions he lived under the threat of electroshock
therapy, mind numbing drugs, straitjackets, and lobotomies. His life was a
living hell.
Day maintains that for three
consecutive months his job was to take the dead bodies of orphans from the
operating and electroshock rooms down the Montreal hospital basement where he
had to wash the bodies to prepare them for sale to the Montreal universities.
The hospital in question was St. Jean de Dieu, but according to Day it could
have been any mental hospital at the time.
Day witnessed first hand, the human
rights abuses going on in the institutions. He saw children and teens used as
slave labor. He witnessed the inmates drugged with chlorpromazine until they
were senseless, and he saw the ravishing effects of electroshock therapy and
lobotomies.
Day's most traumatic experience was
when he was asked to transport and wash a dead body. He removed the surgically
gown and cap and jumped in surprise, the dead orphan did not have a brain. Day
could clearly see the hole through his head.
Not long afterward, his was called
to remove another corpse and prepare it. He could clearly see the large holes
drilled into the orphan's skull. Finally, he was summoned to remove yet a third
body; only this time, the unfortunate victim committed suicide. He hung himself
to escape further torture from the hospital experimentation.
Day informs that the local embalmer
told him the bodies were sold to the University of Montreal and McGill
University for their parts. He was also warned he had to stay quiet or he would
have serious problems ahead of him.
Day claims that he complained to the
psychiatrist Camille Laurin, later to become a Quebec cabinet minister. He feed
drugs so strong that they rendered him unconscious and in a vegetative state.
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