A nun told a schoolboy “your family doesn’t want you, your country doesn’t want you” as she informed him he was to be sent from Aberdeen to Australia, an inquiry has heard.
A witness told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry he was 11 when he was forced to migrate overseas in the 1950s.
The man accused the British government at the time of robbing him of a family, a country and an education.
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