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Bodies of 215 children are found in mass grave at Catholic Church-run 'Indian residential school' as ex-student recalls how classmates would vanish and PM Justin Trudeau brands discovery 'shameful'

  • Remains of 215 children have been found at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia in Canada
  • The remains were found with the help of a ground penetrating radar specialist after long-held suspicions about the fate of missing students 
  • One survivor told how children would suddenly disappear from the school without explanation, and sexual and physical abuse was common
  • Many of those killed are feared to have died of diseases including tuberculosis, with survivors recalling how they endured physical and sexual abuse 
  • Canada's residential school system forcibly separated more then 150,000 indigenous children from their families from 1863 to 1998
  • A six-year Truth and Reconciliation Commission into the now-defunct system found in 2015 that it  constituted 'cultural genocide'
  • The latest discovery is the first time a mass burial site has been found and is expected to set of a 'wave of litigation'
  • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has described the discovery as 'heartbreaking' 
  • An artist displayed 215 pairs of children's shoes on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery to create a space for 'grief, reflection'

 

 

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, have been found buried at a former residential school for indigenous children in Canada. 

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

None of them have been identified, and it remains unclear how they died. 

'This is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions,' British Columbia premier John Horgan said in a statement, adding he was 'horrified and heartbroken' that 215 bodies had been found at the site. 

'It's a harsh reality and it's our truth, it's our history,' Tk'emlúps te Secwepemc Chief Rosanne Casimir told a media conference Friday. 

'And it's something that we've always had to fight to prove. To me, it's always been a horrible, horrible history.'  

Casimir said they had begun searching for the remains of missing children at the school grounds in the early 2000s, as they had long suspected official explanations of runaway children were part of a cover-up by the state.  

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 system was created by Christian churches and the Canadian government in the 19th century in an attempt to 'assimilate' and convert indigenous youngsters into Canadian society.  They were forcibly removed from their families to attend the schools. 

Many of the children found dead are feared to have suffered deadly diseases including tuberculosis, although survivors say physical and sexual abuse was rife. 

The National Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada 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 state governments from the 1840s to the 1990s.

It found more than 4,100 children died while attending residential schools. 

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 shared on Friday.  

Survivors who attended the school say had friends and classmates who disappeared suddenly, and were never spoken of again. 

A survivor of the Kamloops school, Chief Harvey McLeod of the Upper Nicola Band, said the gruesome discovery had brought up painful memories of his time there. 

McLeod was taken to the school in 1966 with seven of his siblings, and says he suffered physical and sexual abuse there.

His parents had also attended the school, and said it must have been traumatizing for them dropping off their children knowing the misery that awaited them. 

'I lost my heart, it was so much hurt and pain to finally hear, for the outside world, to finally hear what we assumed was happening there,' McLeod told CNN

 

The children whose remains were found were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia (pictured) that closed in 1978

The children whose remains were found were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia (pictured) that closed in 1978

 

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site. Many area feared to have succumbed to diseases including TB, although abuse was rife at the school

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site. Many area feared to have succumbed to diseases including TB, although abuse was rife at the school

Chief Harvey McLeod, of the Upper Nicola Band, said children would go missing from the Kamloops residential school and never be heard from again

Chief Harvey McLeod, of the Upper Nicola Band, said children would go missing from the Kamloops residential school and never be heard from again

 

 

Children would disappear suddenly from the residential facility, and no one would question where they had gone.

'It was assumed that they ran away and were never going to come back. We just never seen them again and nobody ever talked about them,' he told CTV.

Chief McLeod said despite the pain and trauma that the discovery had resurfaced, he hoped it would allow he and other survivors to heal.  

'I have forgiven, I have forgiven my parents, I have forgiven my abusers, I have broken the chain that held me back at that school, I don't want to live there anymore but at the same time make sure that the people who didn't come home are acknowledged and respected and brought home in a good way,' he told CNN.  

Another survivor Jeanette Jules said the news had 'triggered memories hurt, and pain'.

Jules, who now works a a counsellor with Tk'emlups te Secwepemc Indian Band, said she was haunted by memories of the guards coming to the children's rooms at night. 

'I would hear clunk, clunk...and it is one of the security guards...then the whimpers,...the whimpers because here is the guy who molests people,' she told CTV. 

The Canadian PM 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.'

The Kamloops Indian Residential School in 1937. The school was established in 1890 and operated until 1969, its roll peaking at 500 during the 1950s

The Kamloops Indian Residential School in 1937. The school was established in 1890 and operated until 1969, its roll peaking at 500 during the 1950s 

 

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9630875/Remains-215-children-former-indigenous-school-site-Canada.html

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Can't imagine the pain and trauma these kids endured along with their families. As evidenced from the unmarked graves, these children were treated like animals. No medical care. Even their bodies weren't given back to the families. 

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/newly-discovered-b-c-graves-a-grim-reminder-of-the-heartbreaking-death-toll-of-residential-schools

This is a right-wing publication and they've surprisingly done a good article on this. But the attitude of conservative gorey is sickening from the comments section. Still in denial, deflection, muddling.

These schools operated right into the late 90s. Just shocking. 

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2 hours ago, Jai Tegang! said:

Can't imagine the pain and trauma these kids endured along with their families. As evidenced from the unmarked graves, these children were treated like animals. No medical care. Even their bodies weren't given back to the families. 

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/newly-discovered-b-c-graves-a-grim-reminder-of-the-heartbreaking-death-toll-of-residential-schools

This is a right-wing publication and they've surprisingly done a good article on this. But the attitude of conservative gorey is sickening from the comments section. Still in denial, deflection, muddling.

These schools operated right into the late 90s. Just shocking. 

I don't think this was isolated. I think things like this happened in many if not all colonies like Australia and the US. I've even read accounts of escaped nazis who fled to South America just before the war ended, abusing and doing experiments on the vulnerable indigenous kids there.  We know how blacks were treated in the US too. 

What makes me want to vomit is how certain self-centred and dimwitted apnay, still think the sun shines out of goray's ar5es, when this type of stuff was rampant, and what they built their 'civilisations' upon. THAT is what you call an inferiority complex. 

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I witnessed the prejudices  of my white friends in the nineties towards the natives. I didn't know any better and adopted the same outlook until the broader picture at play came into focus. How can you expect a demoralized, broken down, traumatized people to successfully navigate life? Destroy enough of their culture so there is no going back. Incentivize isolation without any upliftment and the result is a people unable to authentically connect to their past (loss of language) and economically ruined.

Coming back to our own community, look at how well they played us. Our people love to boast about the amount of blood and life we donated to their conflicts, yet these very people didn't even bother giving us our share before taking off. Someone steals your home, then offers you a job, and come time to leave, splits up your house between your neighbors. If we were wise, we would have acquired their expertise in areas we were lacking and used it to our advantage, giving them a hard boot as they were leaving by consolidating our people already serving in the military. All those years of service really dumbed our common sense in every way.

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9 minutes ago, Jai Tegang! said:

I witnessed the prejudices  of my white friends in the nineties towards the natives. I didn't know any better and adopted the same outlook until the broader picture at play came into focus. How can you expect a demoralized, broken down, traumatized people to successfully navigate life? Destroy enough of their culture so there is no going back. Incentivize isolation without any upliftment and the result is a people unable to authentically connect to their past (loss of language) and economically ruined.

Coming back to our own community, look at how well they played us. Our people love to boast about the amount of blood and life we donated to their conflicts, yet these very people didn't even bother giving us our share before taking off. Someone steals your home, then offers you a job, and come time to leave, splits up your house between your neighbors. If we were wise, we would have acquired their expertise in areas we were lacking and used it to our advantage, giving them a hard boot as they were leaving by consolidating our people already serving in the military. All those years of service really dumbed our common sense in every way.

This stuff is planned. Break down and set back a community to keep them subordinate. I believe they found our rural lot particularly useful id1ots, and instead of slyly trying to slay them (like with most others), they used them as canon fodder, put id1otic notions in their heads (Juts seems especially susceptible to flattery from outsiders), and turned them against each other. Then they let others have open season on us and quietly support, whether sullay at partition, congress post independence (Thatcher and the SAS), hiding the rampant grooming going on in the UK (by the media, social services and police) etc. etc. 

The only saving grace is that I believe we have natural fighters in our quom, and these people will be at the forefront of demolishing the psychological Jedi tricks used against us to turn us into fudhus.  It's tough work though. But we have to clean up our quom. Some people need to go - permanently.  

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