UN seeks full probe into death of Indigenous students at residential schools
The discovery of an unmarked burial site at a Kamloops residential school has sent shock waves across the world, which experts say will have a lasting negative impact on Canada’s reputation as a leading human rights defender.
William Schabas, a professor at Middlesex University in the United Kingdom, said Canada likes to champion itself as a human rights supporter, but the discovery will hurt its reputation and make many people look at its activism with an amount of cynicism. They will say ’This is a country that’s great at condemning human rights violations in the strongest of terms in other countries, and has more trouble with its own situation,’ he said.