A group called the ‘Lower Kootena Band’ has found 182 human remains in unmarked graves at a site near a former residential school in Canada.
Hundreds of children’s graves found in Canada (symbolic photo)
An Indigenous group in the Canadian province of British Columbia said on Wednesday that 182 human remains (182 human remains) had been discovered in unmarked graves using ‘ground-penetrating’ radar. These graves have been discovered in a site near a former residential school. Here the children of the indigenous people were kept separate from their families. Even before this, information about two such incidents had come to the fore in the schools run by the church. In this, 600 graves were found in one place, while 215 graves were found in another place.
The ‘Lower Kootena Band’ said in a news release that last year radar technology was used to discover a site near the town of Cranbuk. The site is located near the former St Eugene’s Mission School, which was operated by the Roman Catholic Church from 1912 to the 1970s. It said that on searching the site we found unmarked graves. Some of these were three feet deep. The release said that these human remains are believed to belong to the band of the Katunxa nation. This includes Kootena Band, Akam and other communities.
Country ashamed of what happened to children of indigenous people: PM Trudeau
Earlier, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were afraid and ashamed of a long-standing government policy that sent Native children to boarding schools where hundreds of unnamed graves were found. Huh. Trudeau said, “It was a painful government policy that was Canada’s reality for many decades, and today Canadians are horrified and ashamed that it used to happen in our country.”
Children used to be beaten up and sexually abused in schools
Indigenous leaders said that more than 600 remains have been found in the ‘Marival Indian Residential’ school. Located in the province of Saskatchewan, this school operated from 1899 to 1997. Last month, 215 remains were found in one such school in British Columbia. The children of the indigenous people were forced to attend government Christian schools.
From the 19th century to the 1970s, 150,000 children were sent to these schools, run by Roman Catholic missionaries. The government has admitted that children were assaulted and sexually abused in these schools. Even children who spoke in their mother tongue were beaten up. Thousands of children died during that period due to disease and other causes.
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