We call on the Scottish Parliament and United Nations to call for a FULL PUBLIC ENQUIRY into the Scottish Government’s refusal to offer a full public apology for The Tinker Housing Experiment, which was a Scotland wide eugenics campaign which saw Gypsy Traveller’s subjected to cultural lockdown, deliberately sub-standard accommodation and the theft of their children. Lives were destroyed with the repercussions continuing from one generation to another of the victim's families. 

The vast majority of the children were sent overseas with some of the countries churches complicit in the experiment - we call on these churches to be held to account for their historical actions.

We perceive that the reasons given by the Scottish Government for being ‘unable’ to apologise are both misleading and spurious and in themselves denigrate the human rights of the Gypsy Traveller victims. The Scottish Government have said that they cannot apologise for the experiment because they cannot apologise for pre devolution matters or on behalf of others. This is however incorrect and misleading as they have (correctly) apologised to historically persecuted gay men and others.