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In light of the ongoing discoveries of Indigenous children’s unmarked graves in Canadian cities including Kamloops and Cranbrook, calls on social media to boycott Canada Day are growing. In the past month, hundreds of remains have been found on the grounds of former residential schools, where Indigenous children were sent between the 1870s and 1990s to be forcibly assimilated into colonial Canadian culture. Thousands of children are believed to have died in the residential school system.
Prime Minister of Canada denounces church for calling for Indigenous deaths in US and Canadian News
UN rights experts have called on Canada and the Catholic Church to conduct in-depth investigations after the remains of indigenous children were found in the former residential school, the Prime Minister of Canada has blown up the church for ignoring past crimes.
There was a mass grave of 215 indigenous children find last month at the Kamloops residential school in British Columbia, which operated between 1890 and 1978 under the auspices of the Catholic Church and later the Government of Canada.
“We urge the authorities to conduct a full investigation into the circumstances and responsibilities of these deaths, including forensic examinations of the remains found, and to identify and record the missing children,” said nine UN human rights experts. statement on Friday.