Canada finds more graves at former school for indigenous children as China calls for rights probe
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Published 2021-06-24
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Unmarked graves of up to 751 people have been found near a former Catholic residential school in the central Canadian province of Saskatchewan, in the second such shock discovery in less than a month. The June 24, 2021, discovery at the Marieval Indian Residential School was announced just two days after China called for a human rights investigation by the United Nations into the previous case where remains of over 200 indigenous children were found at the defunct Kamloops Residential School in the western province of British Columbia. Beijing’s call for a UN human rights probe sparked an angry response from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and prompted Ottawa to call for an investigation into Beijing’s alleged mass detention of Uygur Muslims in China’s remote Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
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All Comments (21)
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And they were all children. They would've been adults now, have careers, and possibly happily married. And it was all cut off by an unspeakable cruelty
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simply horrific. just thinking about what those children, their families, and their people(s) went through makes me cry.
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If they can prosecute Nazis decades later, they can do the same to these priests, nuns, police, politicians etc.
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I’m sorry, did this guy really say “accidental racism”? It wasn’t an accident, people knew what they were doing and it’s honestly disgusting and sickening to hear about things like this.
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If this is not genocide, I don't know what is.
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These are schools that actually worse than prison.
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As an average Canadian I think the key is to acknowledge what happened and never let it happen again. Stand up for indigenous people who are still being hurt today, do not look away and do not cover your ears.
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It’s just horrible how those murderers hurt and killed so many people, especially the poor children. May they have peace in heaven 🙏🏼
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You can image how all indigenous people almost entirely wiped out from the North America during this 200 years..... they lost their original culture, original language, lost their tribes, lost their common memories, they lost their lands, they lost everything used to belong to them....
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Imagine your land taken away, your children as well
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Irony The same is happening to PALESTINIAN children and the whole world watches by..In future someone will say how did you let something so grave happen.
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Yo... How come the dude from CHINA is calling others out on genocide. You’re kidding, right?!
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These residential schools should’ve been closed way before they actually were closed.
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If over 700+ graves were found in Canada in less than a month, imagine how many their are in the US?
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Canada talk about human rights in other country, its like “You can see ant on cross the ocean but you can see an elephant in your eyes”
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"China calls for human rights violations" Oh the irony.....
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All those poor children! Taken from their parents, abused & murdered in cold blood!
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This is just horrible. I AM DISGUSTED. May they rest in peace.
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I know this is sad but China asking for a rights probe is just ironic
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I pray my people’s stories finally get told, that the truth be revealed once and for all. For all the families torn apart, for all the kid’s that were murdered, neglected, & mistreated. Aboriginal/Native American people have never been treated right in our own country, and it isn’t right. Generational trauma is something we continue to live with everyday. It isn’t just “something that happened a long time ago.” It’s not something to be swept under the rug or easily forgotten, or “got over.” A severe and gross injustice has been and still is happening to many of the people in/from my culture. It’s time for truth, honesty, & justice, and it’s time for healing.
