Canadian politician:The need for the Vatican to apologize and release documents on the crimes of Canadian boarding schools.
Referring to the discovery of mass graves of indigenous students in Canada, the Canadian politician stressed the need for the Vatican to apologize and release documents documenting the crimes of Canadian boarding schools.
In the weeks following the discovery of the remains of 215 indigenous children in Canada, the discovery of numerous other graves of children near a church boarding school has again highlighted a dark chapter in cultural genocide in the country’s history.
The Canadian boarding school system forcibly separated more than 150,000 Indigenous children from their families between 1831 and 1996 as part of a program to attract Indigenous people into Canadian society. The children were abused, malnourished and raped in these schools, and 3,200 indigenous children were reportedly killed in these schools.
In its 2015 report, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada concluded that what happened in Native Canadian boarding schools was “cultural genocide.” The tragedy of the discovery of mass graves of Indigenous children in Canada, in addition to the reactions of grief and anger of the Indigenous community, also met with reactions at the level of Canadian authorities and the international community.
Reacting to the tragedy, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it was a painful reminder of a dark and embarrassing season in Canadian history. He also called on the Catholic Church to accept responsibility for running these schools and apologize. Pope Francis, the world’s Catholic leader, expressed his condolences to the people and natives of Trudeau after Trudeau’s remarks, but did not apologize for the church’s role.
In this regard, “Selena Cesar Chavans”, a politician and former member of the Canadian Parliament, told Mehr: “The Vatican should apologize to the Native Canadians for the role of the church in these killings in the first stage, and in the next stages, it has published all the documents of this massacre.” And start research in this area. The details of this conversation are as follows:
According to the latest reports and assessments, one of Canada’s goals in establishing boarding schools is to eliminate indigenous culture in order to provide more land and resources for immigrants. what is your idea about this?
There is no doubt that these boarding schools, in addition to acquiring the lands and properties of the natives, were also designed to destroy their culture, because, according to the European immigrants there, the culture of the natives was much lower than their culture.
