Hundreds of protesters have called for an independent investigation into the incidents after hundreds of anonymous graves were discovered on the grounds of former boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada.
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- Hundreds of anonymous graves were found on the site of former boarding schools.
People gather on Saturday (local time) for a protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. “Indigenous people need truth and justice,” wrote Left NDP MP Mumilaq Kakkak on Instagram. You and another NDP MP had called for the protest.
The party calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor and an “independent investigation of Canadian crimes against indigenous peoples in the presence of international observers”. Kakkak called on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Justice Minister David Lametti to “stop looking for excuses”.
People are surprised by the number of graves. “These are not accidents, these are not tragedies, this is the epitome of a policy that aims to annihilate the people,” said politician Charlie Angus of broadcaster CBC NDP.
Since late May, more than a thousand anonymous graves have been found near former boarding schools for Indigenous children. In Canada, since 1874, about 150,000 children of indigenous peoples and mixed couples were separated from their families and their culture and placed in church homes forcing them to adapt to white-majority society Can go
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.
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