Women near a former boarding school where anonymous graves were found in Marieval, Canada (Geoff Robins / AFP)
The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, on Tuesday lamented the discovery of 160 new anonymous graves near an Indigenous residential school on Kuper Island in western Canada.
“It breaks my heart. We cannot bring back the dead, but we can continue to speak the truth, just as we will continue to work with Indigenous peoples to address discrimination and systemic racism through real, concrete action.” , said the Prime Minister.
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“We are at another time when we have to face the trauma caused by these acts of genocide,” said the leader of the Penelakut community, Joan Brown, in a statement on the 8th, confirming the discovery of more than 160 unidentified graves. on the site.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” noted former Union of British Columbia Native Chiefs vice-president Bob Chamberlin. In just over a month, more than 1,000 graves have been discovered near native boarding schools, remnants of Canada’s policy of forced assimilation, which shocked the country.
The Kuper Island Indian Residential School housed Indigenous children from the late 19th century until 1975.
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