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Violence affects immigrant kids MONTREAL (CP) — Eleven-year-old Francisco's searing memories of the night Chilean soldiers burst into his home to abduct and torture his mother have twice driven him to try sui- cide. “Francisco is a very de- pressed child who is carrying the burden of what happened to his mother,” said Cecile Rousseau, a psychiatrist at the Douglas Hosptial in Mon- treal. Almost a year after he began treatment, Francisco still has trouble concentrat- ing and relating to other people, common problems for children in similar circum- stances. Therapists say that getting him to relive the painful event is the first step to re- habilitation. 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That's what we're trying to get. -“The younger the child, the greater the shock will be and the more the child will re- main aloof,” said Rousseau, who spent four years in Guatemala where she said she saw torture victims. Some of the children Rou. sseau has treated have im- proved but “these things don’t happen overnight” and it’s too early to determine whether Francisco has im- proved. Even Francisco's relation- ship with his mother changed after the torture, said Rous- seau. “Afterwards, he assumed the role of an adult with his mother, who was unable to give him the same attention as before because she felt so marked by the event her- self.” Rousseau said torture vic- tims have told her they have too much hatred against those who tortured them to be capable of loving their children. s “It's as if what happened took up all their space and they have little room for anything else,” she said. “The children feel that.” = si oie, ANAS! ri ROPED IN . . . Local kids enjoyed the rides and gamex at WestCoast A 's Carnival Midway at the Castlegar Arena last weekend. Pictured above is a ar aS & Ne Ss . aes vans ~ AA yy BS ame Beret: TH aa a maze of slides and Ikways for the y g-for- the-Zipper crowd. —CasNewsPhote by Suri Ration 3 ee By The Canadian Press Refugee support groups have denounced the federal government's tough new legislation aimed at curbing abuse of Canada’s refugee system. Church groups and Amnesty International vowed to join opposition MPs battling for changes to legislation introduced Tuesday by Immigration Minister Benoit Bouchard. And 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel added his voice to the attack. “Canada is a vast country, Canada should show compassion to’ refugees,” Wiesel, a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, said in Toronto. “I believe a society can be measured and judged by its attitude to strangers . . . I would hope that Canada would like to be measured by those lofty standards.” Bouchard said no genuine refugee will be returned to face persecution in another country but the law demonstrates the government's resolve to curb abuse. SCREEN REFUGEES Under the new system refugee claims will be processed in months instead of years. Would-be refugees will be screened at the border by a member of a new independent refugee board and.an Immigration Department official. Those with arguable claims or claims where there is some doubt will receive a hearing before a two-member panel of the refugee board. If either member ‘accepts the claim, the applicant will receive refugee status. Those who are refused can appeal to the Federal Court of Canada. The initial screening will eliminate those who have refugee status in another country or have had a reasonable opportunity to make a claim in that country. It will also stop those arriving from a third country the government considers safe, those who have clearly unfounded claims, those who have already been denied refugee status and those who have been ordered deported. Refugee law slammed shameful and said although the new system may be more efficient it will also be less fair. “It's a sad day for beleaugered refugees everywhere,” the C it for Ref said, calling for the bill's immediate withdrawal. CRITICIZES BILL Canadian Jewish Congress representative Lorne Waldman said cabinet decisions on which countries are safe will be subject to political considerations and complained that the list won't be subject to review by Parliament. Amnesty International spokesman Michael Schelew said the bill is an about-face on Canada’s humanitarian record and may jeopardize the safety of people fleeing persecution. Mathilde Marchand, secretary of the agency which it all M refugee aid or izati said it is ridiculous to ask people without lawyers to prove their claims are valid within days after arriving “when they are exhausted from their journey and terribly upset by the circumstances which brought them to our border.” Canada accepted 18,000 refugees last year but the issue has become increasingly controversial as thousands of people from countries such as Turkey and Portugal claitned refugee status in ordef™‘to avoid normal immigration procedures. Bouchard said the legislation doesn’t affect what he called “administrative measures” introduced in February and designed to stem a flood of refugee applications that had resulted in a backlog of about 20,000 cases. Under those measures, people claiming refugee status in Canada who have passed through the United States must remain in that country until an inquiry can be held. The government also cancelled the B-1 list, a list of 18 countries to which Canada didn’t deport anyone for any reason. The measures also imposed visa requirements for a number of countries. The number of refugee applications has ‘HILL STREET’ = SURVIVOR Dennis Franz, who pk Thursday, May 7 through to Wednesday, May 13 Supplement to the Castlegar News of Wednesday, May 6, 1987 Castlégar News ~ tid. Buntz on “Hill Street 8I -in his own spinoff series “episode on May 12. re ig itt i Hi iH or not to til Sat., May 9 YOU BID, YOU WIN YOU DRIVE! ALONEY PONTIA BUICK GMC LTD. 365-2155 Collect Continues INSURANCE EASY" 1127 - 4th Street, Castlegor & F i iit PERFECT FAMILY INVESTMENT Two 2,100 sq.ft. units plus 2 lake view trom this excep- tionally sound HERITAGE HOME. 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