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Remains of 215 indigenous kids found at former Canada residential school

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Updated: May 29th, 2021, 13:09 IST
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Ottawa: The remains of 215 indigenous children were discovered at a former residential school in Kamloops in western Canada, authorities said, adding an investigation into the matter has been launched.

In a press release Friday, the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations said: “It is unknown how many children died and disappeared while attending residential schools in Canada with few known locations of their resting sites.

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“Indigenous peoples continue to deal and cope with the past genocidal policies and entrenched colonial system. The investigation at this burial site will continue and it is expected that the number of child graves will increase.

“It is expected that thousands of unmarked graves exist across Canada of indigenous children who died at residential schools. Families who never saw their children return home experience never-ending grief and continue to live with deep scars.”

The Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation in Kamloops city in British Columbia province announced that ground-penetrating radar uncovered the remains of 215 children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, reports Xinhua news agency.

Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation said on Thursday that the remains were confirmed last weekend with the help of a ground-penetrating radar specialist.

Among the 215 children, some were three years old.

The children were assumed to have been lost or runaway in Canada’s residential school system.

Casimir called the discovery an “unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented at the Kamloops Indian Residential School”.

The residential school was one of the largest from 1890 until 1969 when the federal government took over the administration before its closing in 1978.

“The finding of these graves refreshes the grief and loss for all First Nations in British Columbia as we remember the fear, horror and desperation experienced by families and communities as their children were forcibly taken away to residential schools,” said Regional Chief Terry Teegee of British Columbia Assembly of First Nations.

“It was a dreadful time of forced assimilation and genocide inflicted by the colonial Canadian state for over a hundred years. Finding these gravesites is urgent work as many families continue to mourn the loss of their missing children and seek information about their fates,” he added.

Perry Bellegarde, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, called the news painful.

“While it is not new to find graves at former residential schools in Canada, it’s always crushing to have that chapter’s wounds exposed.”

British Columbia Premier John Horgan stated that he is horrified and heartbroken to learn that the burial site of 215 children had been confirmed.

Marc Miller, Minister of Indigenous Services, said it was heartbreaking news and promised “to offer the full support of Indigenous Services Canada as the community, and surrounding communities, honor and mourn the loss of these children”.

An estimated 150,000 indigenous children across Canada were reportedly removed from their homes and forced to attend residential schools between 1890s and as recently as 1996.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada issued its final report on residential schools more than five years ago.

The nearly 4,000-page account details the harsh mistreatment inflicted on indigenous children at the institutions, where at least 3,200 children died amid abuse and neglect.

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