‘Continued genocide’: First Nations leaders disturbed by effort to dig up unmarked graves in B.C.
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"Some came in the middle of the night, carrying shovels; they said they wanted to 'see for themselves' if children are buried there," reads the report by Kimberly Murray.
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First Nations leaders in British Columbia are “very disappointed” by a recent report that residential school deniers tried to dig up suspected unmarked grave sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
News of the undated incident was made public Friday in an interim report from Canada’s independent special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked burial sites associated with residential schools — a harrowing system of assimilation sponsored by the federal government and multiple Christian churches for more than a century.
“Denialists entered the site without permission. Some came in the middle of the night, carrying shovels; they said they wanted to ‘see for themselves’ if children are buried there,” reads the report by Kimberly Murray.
“A core group of Canadians continue to defend the Indian Residential Schools System.”
Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc sent shockwaves of grief and anger across the nation two years ago when it revealed more than 200 suspected burial sites on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, detected through ground-penetrating radar.
Those missing children, called Le Estcwicwéy̓, stirred a nationwide reckoning on Canada’s racist and violent colonial foundations, and prompting searches of former residential school grounds that have since revealed the possible presence of thousands of unmarked grave sites across the country.
Global News has reached out to Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir for comment.
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