Canadian Human Rights; Rediscovery of mass graves of indigenous children.
Following the horrific story of the discovery of mass graves involving Native Canadian children, the indigenous leaders of the province of British Columbia announced the discovery of another 93 unmarked graves near a former boarding school.
Following the scandal over the discovery of mass graves of Native Canadian children, indigenous leaders in the western British province of British Columbia said on Tuesday that they believed they had discovered 93 unidentified graves near a former boarding school.
Williams Lake, a native of Williams Lake, British Columbia, told a news conference yesterday (Tuesday) that using geophysical techniques, including ground-penetrating radars, possible human corpses The location of the former St. Joseph boarding school, which was active from 1886 to 1981, has been identified; A school run by Catholic missionaries. Sellers added that drilling is needed to confirm this.
He added: “For decades, there have been reports of neglect and abuse in this school, and worse, reports of children dying or disappearing from the center, which were considered invalid at best.
New findings have renewed calls for justice and the full disclosure of Canadian government records of the forced custody of thousands of Indigenous children in boarding schools where their language and culture were prohibited.
In late July, a Canadian media outlet reported the discovery of a fourth mass grave of more than 160 Indigenous children at a former school in the western province in a matter of weeks. Canadian media reported three times earlier in the week that mass graves had been discovered that buried nearly 1,000 Indigenous Canadian children.
The publication of the horrific story of the discovery of hundreds of mass graves on the grounds of old boarding schools from which the bodies of Native Canadian children were exhumed has sparked tensions in the country claiming human rights and a dispute between the Canadian government and the Vatican. The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has apologized to Pope Francis, the world’s Catholic leader, and blamed the Vatican.
Between 1883 and 1996, some 150,000 Indigenous children were forcibly separated from their families and sent to boarding schools established by the Catholic Church, with the primary goal of alienating these children from Canadian indigenous communities and preventing the spread of the language. And their maternal traditions and upbringing were imposed.
