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By Anna Mehler Paperny

TORONTO (Reuters) - The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday.

The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978, according to the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Nation, which said the remains were found with the help of a ground penetrating radar specialist.


"We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify," Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir said in a statement. "At this time, we have more questions than answers."

Canada's residential school system, which forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, constituted "cultural genocide," a six-year investigation into the now-defunct system found in 2015.

The report documented horrific physical abuse, rape, malnutrition and other atrocities suffered by many of the 150,000 children who attended the schools, typically run by Christian churches on behalf of Ottawa from the 1840s to the 1990s.

It found more than 4,100 children died while attending residential school. The deaths of the 215 children buried in the grounds of what was once Canada's largest residential school are believed to not have been included in that figure and appear to have been undocumented until the discovery.

Trudeau wrote in a tweet that the news "breaks my heart - it is a painful reminder of that dark and shameful chapter of our country's history."

In 2008, the Canadian government formally apologized for the system.

The Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Nation said it was engaging with the coroner and reaching out to the home communities whose children attended the school. They expect to have preliminary findings by mid-June.

In a statement, British Columbia Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Terry Teegee called finding such grave sites "urgent work" that "refreshes the grief and loss for all First Nations in British Columbia."

(Reporting by Anna Mehler Paperny, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/remains-215-children-found-former-indigenous-school-site-canada-2021-05-28/

It's clear they were used for ritual purposes, , this world lies in the power of darkness....

Here is an interesting aljazeerah documentary into the Canadian dark secret of indigenous schools.
very touching. I watched it some months ago, so hearing the story of the discovery of the bodies felt like closure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peLd_jtMdrc

RisenJoe:
It's clear they were used for ritual purposes, , this world lies in the power of darkness....

I think it was more of sheer cruelty of men.

Am not really sure but personally British are the most cruel Ethnic nationalities I have seen, 4uck them for so much killings they caused

Horrible

If such was discovered in Africa they would have called us barbarians and ritualists, but now that it is happening in their 'utopian' societies it's just a "dark and shameful chapter" in their history.

What an acient tragedy

first time to hear something evil from canada

What a tragedy.

As for those trying to compare this to happenings in Africa,may I remind you that it was in the past.

I condemn such barbaric act,but my point is that we loose hundreds of women and children in Africa everyday because of our visionless and wicked leader's.

My fear is that this action might continue for so many years to come.

RisenJoe:
It's clear they were used for ritual purposes, , this world lies in the power of darkness....

Europeans really commited a lot of crime against humanity before the 20th century.

Humans are the same all over... Selfish...
Count yourself out? I bet you, you're the villian in someone else's story


That video up there is touching...

crossfm:
What a tragedy.

As for those trying to compare this to happenings in Africa,may I remind you that it was in the past.

I condemn such barbaric act,but my point is that we loose hundreds of women and children in Africa everyday because of our visionless and wicked leader's.

My fear is that this action might continue for so many years to come.

Western societies are deep in occultic practices like Africans.What you term ritual sacrifice could also be a code for organ trafficking network worldwide.Many children and adults get missing in USA never to be seen again.These children and adults are used for sex,sacrifices,organ donation or hunting parties of the rich and mighty.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c19_zTzRFsU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2B6oxV-E5g

We live in wild times