Canada: Protesters demand investigation into residential schools
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Call comes after over 1,000 unmarked graves found at institutions Indigenous children were forced to attend for decades.
Warning: The story below contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting. Canada’s Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419. Hundreds of people took part in a rally in the Canadian capital on Saturday to demand an independent investigation into the “residential schools” that Indigenous children were forced to attend for decades and where hundreds of unmarked graves have been discovered in recent weeks. The “March for Truth and Justice” rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa was led by New Democratic Party legislators Charlie Angus and Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, who represents the northern territory of Nunavut.
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