Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The remains of 215 children, among them 3 years old, were found at the site of a former boarding school for Indigenous children in Canada.
The children were students at the treacherous Kamploops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. According to conservation agency Tk’emplups te Secwepemc First Nation, the school closed in 1978.
The body was found with the help of radar experts, as quoted by Reuters, Sunday (30/5/2021).
“We know our community can verify it. At this point, we have more questions to answer,” said Tk’emplups te Secwepemc head Rosanne Casimir.
In 2015, Canada released the results of a six-year investigation into Canada’s now-defunct school residency system. The investigation determined the system of separating indigenous children from their families as ‘cultural genocide’.
The report documents the sexual, physical, malnutrition and other abuses experienced by more than 150,000 children who attend the school. The school itself was run by the Christian church from the 1840s to the 1990s,
At least, it has been found that more than 4,100 children died while attending residential schools. The deaths of 215 children buried in the former school’s land have not been recorded.
“[berita ini] broke my heart, became a painful reminder of the dark times and embarrassed the history of our nation, ”said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The conservation government of Tk’emplups te Secwepemc First Nation claimed to have cooperated and contacted the families whose children were in the school.
For information, Tk’emplups te Secwepemce formerly known as the Kamloops Indian Band, is one of the largest of the 17 groups into which the Secwepemc tribal state was divided when the Colony of British Columbia formed the system in the 1860s.
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