'Unthinkable' discovery in Canada as remains of 215 children found buried near residential school

[malaise]

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/28/world/children-remains-discovered-canada-kamloops-school/index.html


The former Kamloops Indian Residential School on Thursday, May 27, in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. The remains of 215 children have been found buried on school's grounds, which closed in 1978.
(CNN)The gruesome discovery took decades and for some survivors of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada, the confirmation that children as young as 3 were buried on school grounds crystallizes the sorrow they have carried all their lives.

"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," said Harvey McLeod, who attended the school for two years in the late 1960s, in a telephone interview with CNN Friday.
"The story is so unreal, that yesterday it became real for a lot of us in this community," he said.

"We recognize the tragic, heartbreaking devastation that the Canadian residential school system has inflicted upon so many, and our thoughts are with all of those who are in mourning today," she said.
In 2015 Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a report detailing the damaging legacy of the country's residential school system. Thousands of mostly indigenous children were separated from their families and forced to attend residential schools.
The report detailed decades of physical, sexual and emotional abuse suffered by children in government and church run institutions.
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Fucking savages are responsible for these deaths

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. I read in another article that over the decades this whole 'system' was in place, 4,000 kids

never made it home. The implication was that neither did their remains, but that was not explicitly said so not positive on that.

Given it was open for over 70 years, it's not impossible that 3 kids died each year simply due to what were almost certainly terrible living conditions at this hellhole.

I hope that's as bad it was for these children, and not something even worse

[Doremus]

2. omg

No words.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Children

The Children of the People of the First Nations, taken — kidnapped by the state, so it was legal — from their families for “education.”

“To kill the Indian in the child.”

https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/

[malaise]

4. That is precisely what we have here

and these evil fucks want to define savages.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. The rich and powerful don't like ideas.

Like democracy or pride in self or equality. It’s the bastards who hurt these kids.

I had not heard of these schools until watching “Anne with an E,” based on the book, “Anne of Green Gables.” One of Anne’s friends was taken from her family for education and was scarred psychologically and physically. Set on Prince Edward Island around 1895, the average White person was terrified of the Native Canadians. The show did a great job of expressing both cultures and the history.

[malaise]

11. Colonial powers were monsters

To call them barbarians is kind

[Sneederbunk]

5. The Catholic Church ran the school until 1969

It was then turned over to the government and closed in 1978.

[Dawson Leery]

6. More of that gentile "love" from the RCC...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Working hand in hand with the federal government.

[malaise]

9. Indeed

Plain evil

[malaise]

12. Of course

They never fail

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. State-sponsored genocide.