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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Collard and Lorena Allam, with photography by Blake Sharp-Wiggins

‘Those kids belong to somebody’: elders demand truth about unmarked Aboriginal graves

Howard Riley stands in front of a dilapidated 1940s Chevrolet ambulance, which would have transported sick or dead people at Moore River mission in Western Australia
Howard Riley stands in front of a dilapidated 1940s ambulance at Moore River mission, most well known as the setting for the film Rabbit-Proof Fence. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

Howard Riley stands next to the burnt-out 1940s Chevrolet ambulance, the carcass of the rusting old truck resting on its side amid scrubland and bush.

“Imagine being taken away … and put here in the middle of winter? A lot of kids got pneumonia and other stuff. They died,” he says.

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