Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday after learning of the discovery, “It broke my heart.” “We cannot bring back those who have died, but we can bring the truth to light and will continue to work with Indigenous communities to combat discrimination and structural racism.”
In the past few weeks, more than a thousand anonymous mass graves of Indigenous children were discovered near four different boarding schools in Canada. The discovery caused panic across the country.
In Canada, since 1874, approximately 150,000 native and mixed couple children were separated from their families and cultures and placed in church homes to force them to conform to white-majority society. Many of them were abused or sexually abused in homes. According to previous information, at least 4,000 of these children died, many of them from tuberculosis. The last of these schools did not close until the 1990s.
