carried out, there were nutritional. experiments carried out, which deliberately starved children there were electric chairs, there were children kicked down stairsl who subsequently disappeared from residential school. - i always knew that the children were there. i knew from when i was a child that the children were there. today, the former kamloops school is the administrative centre for the secwepemc people. as a community elder, diena works in the museum there. she decided to investigate the claims of the missing children. i said, well, we need to confirm what our oral history says, what our ancestors have said, that there are children who died here and never made it home. diena and her colleagues hired forensic anthropologist dr sarah beaulieau to look into the site
diena and her colleagues hired forensic anthropologist dr sarah beaulieau to look into the site of the alleged graves in the school grounds. within a typical, traditional cemetery context, we are looking for burials that are about six feet beneath the surface. within a clandestine context, it is always different, and with children particularly, the graves are always more shallow. what was interesting is that they were still within an east west configuration, which is typical of a traditional cemetery or a christian context. using ground penetrating radar she found 215 unmarked graves. the discovery sent shockwaves across canada and made headlines worldwide. survivors hope that the documents handed over to the truth and reconciliation commission in 2008 could help identify who was in the graves. the churches who operated residential schools agreed, and it was
carried out, which deliberately starved children there were electric chairs, there were children kicked down stairs who subsequently - disappeared from | residential school. i always knew that the children were there i knew from when i was a child that the children were there. today, the former kamloops school is the administrative centre for the secwepemc people. as a community elder, diena works in the museum there. she decided to investigate the claims of the missing children. i said, well, we need to confirm what our oral history says, what our ancestors have said, that there are children who died here and never made it home. diena and her colleagues hired forensic anthropologist dr sarah beaulieau to look into the site of the alleged graves
history says, what our ancestors have said, that there are children who died here and never made it home. diena and her colleagues hired forensic anthropologist dr sarah beaulieau to look into the site of the alleged graves in the school grounds. within a typical, traditional cemetery context, we are looking for burials that are about six feet beneath the surface. within a clandestine context, it is always different, and with children particularly, the graves are always more shallow. what was interesting is that they were still within an east west configuration, which is typical of a traditional cemetery or a christian context. using ground penetrating radar she found 215 unmarked graves. the discovery sent shockwaves across canada and made headlines worldwide. survivors hope that the documents handed over to the truth and reconciliation commission