New children’s graves found in Canada

At a former boarding school in the northern Canadian province of Saskatchewan, 93 children’s graves have been identified, 14 of whom may have been babies.

English River First Nation Indian District Chief Jenny Wolverine told the media yesterday that radar scanning of the site at the Beauval Native American Residential School, built in 1860, has identified 93 graves believed to belong to children, 14 of which may belong to babies.

Wolverine said they were concerned about finding more graves, and that “the burial places they came to were heartbreaking and devastating.” “This is not a final number. It’s heartbreaking to have more.” He said.

The boarding schools, the first of which was opened by the Catholic Church in 1840 at the request of the Canadian government, and the last closed in 1997, went down in history as places where more than 150,000 indigenous children were forcibly removed from their homes. families. It was claimed that the majority of indigenous children, who were forcibly separated from their families and cultures to “integrate” into communities dominated by the white majority, were subjected to mistreatment, starvation and cold, as well as sexual and physical abuse. . and medical experiments were even carried out on some children.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was created in Canada in 2008 to reveal all aspects of the tragedy in church boarding schools.

While some sources put the number of children who died while in church schools as 4,200, the Commission’s report noted this number as 5,995, as the deaths were not documented by church administrations. church. (AA)