Ottawa The remains of 215 children, some of whom were only a few years old at the time of death, were found on the site of a former church boarding school in Canada. Reuters reported. The school in British Columbia operated until 1978 and was part of a system that separated the children of Canadian Indians from their parents. Six years ago, a report from the Canadian authorities called the system, which operated until the 1990s, a “cultural genocide.”
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A survey of the site of a former boarding school in Kamloops was initiated by representatives of the Canadian Indian community. They had the land mapped using a special radar that discovered the remains. According to community representative Rosanna Casimir, these are unreported deaths of missing children. “We now have more questions than answers,” she told the Canadian media. The coroner will also examine the plot.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the discovery “a painful reminder of the dark and shameful chapter of our history.” In 2008, his predecessor, Stephen Harper, apologized to the Native Americans and Inuit for the oppression they were exposed to by the Canadian authorities.
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Part of this oppression was the system of boarding schools that the children of the original inhabitants were forced to attend. The schools operated from the second half of the 19th century until the 1990s and were mostly run by the Roman Catholic Church.
According to an investigation report by the Canadian authorities, up to 150,000 children have been subjected to humiliation, oppression and violence at these schools. At least 4,100 children died during their operation. The report called the system, which forced the separation of children from their parents, a “cultural genocide.” The aim was, among other things, to prevent the transmission of language and culture between the generations of the indigenous population.
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