Indigenous organization in Canada reveals 182 unmarked graves at former boarding school; more than 1,000 discoveries in the last 30 days | World

Until now, at least 1,148 ditches have already been identified in Canadian government educational institutions for Indigenous students, run by the Catholic Church for more than a century.

Last week, 751 graves were discovered in a similar institution. The search began after a researcher identified the remains of 215 Aboriginal children in a disused school.

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It remains unclear who owned the remains of the more than 1,000 graves discovered in the past 30 days and whether they all belonged to children.

Since the discovery of the 215 buried children, the indigenous organization First Nation has begun searching for more “hidden graveyards” using radar equipment.

A full report on the abuses and new findings is expected to be released in early July, according to indigenous organizations in the country.

Watch the video below to see how the search began:

Institutions for indigenous peoples

Remains found in disused residential schools reveal a history of abuse against Canada’s Indigenous population.

For more than a century, the government of the North American country has operated, with the support of the Catholic Church, schools to integrate indigenous peoples into society.

They were part of Canada’s Indigenous home school system, which had 130 boarding schools across the country.

There are reports of all kinds of abuse on the sites, with corporal punishment. Children were forbidden to speak their language or practice the culture of their people.

If they insisted on not speaking English or French, they could have their mouths washed out with soap, according to some of the natives forced to attend such institutions.

Estimates by indigenous rights organizations speak of more than 6,000 deaths in these educational institutions.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the situation “a shameful chapter in the country’s history” in a speech last month.

He also requested that the Catholic Church acknowledge ‘responsibility’ and ‘part of the blame’ in running boarding schools.

Pope Francis expressed his “sorrow” and urged political and religious authorities to work together to shed light on the case, but did not apologize for the Church’s involvement.