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Remains of another 200 children found in mass grave at THIRD Canada school after 1,000 bodies discovered at other sites

2021-07-02 00:00:00.0 太阳报-世界新闻原网页

THE remains of 200 children were found in a mass grave at a school in Canada weeks after 1,000 unmarked graves were were discovered in two separate locations.

A First Nations community found the remains on the grounds of a former school.

People from Mosakahiken Cree Nation hug in front of a makeshift memorial Credit: AFP 7

St Eugene’s Mission residential school, where 200 bodies were discovered buried in a mass grave Credit: CBC 7

More than 150,000 indigenous children were forced into schooling during the 19th and 20th centuries Credit: CBC 7

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a memorial Credit: AFP

Lower Kootenay Bank said ground-penetrating radar revealed 182 corpses at St Eugene's Mission school near the Cranbrook, British Colombia.

Some of the bodies were buried in shallow graves barely three to four feet deep.

"It is believed that the remains of these 182 souls are from the member Bands of the Ktunaxa Nation, neighbouring First Nations communities and the community of? Aq’am,” the Lower Kootenay band said in a statement.

More than 150,000 indigenous children were forced into state schools from the 19th century until the late 1990s.

Last week, the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan found another 571 unmarked graves.

In June, the Tk’emlúps te Secwe？pemc announced they had found 215 bodies of children.

Knowledge about the death of indigenous people who were forced into educational facilities is known in Canada but little spoken about.

Jack Kruger, one of many students transported by train and cattle truck to St Eugene's, said he still has nightmares.

"As they uncover more graves at other sites, I’ll have to relive it all over again.

"I don’t anticipate that I’ll stop having nightmares or pain for the next two years. The next two years, you’re going to find many, many, many, many more graves."

St Eugene's was opened in 1890 and was the site of outbreaks of influenza, mumps, measles, chicken pox and tuberculosis, according to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Some predictions claim up to 6,000 First Nation children died Credit: AFP 7

Children shoes line the growing memorial on the grounds of the former Indian Residential School Credit: Reuters 7

Trudeau said the discoveries at both sites 'reaffirm the truth' which Indigenous communities 'have long known' Credit: Reuters

The remains of 761 children have been found in a mass grave on the site of a former Indigenous boarding school in southern Saskatchewan.

The discovery - the largest to date - was made by the Cowessess First Nation on last Thursday, who are continuing their mission to expose the exploitation and "cultural genocide" of their ancestors.

Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme told reporters they believed the headstones or markers at the Marieval Indian Residential School were intentionally removed.

Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations during the press conference said: "This was a crime against humanity, an assault on First Nations."

"The only crime we ever committed as children were being born Indigenous,” he said, before pledging that Indigenous people would not stop until all the "bodies" of the victims were found.

The Marieval Indian Residential School was run by the Roman Catholic Church from 1899 to 1997 and was one of the many compulsory boarding schools funded by the Canadian government.

More than 150,000 First Nations children were subjected to the horrific 'education', that saw them stripped from their families, housed in squalid conditions and sexually and physically abused.

Students were prohibited from speaking in their native tongue and it was common for them to never be reunited with their families.

An estimated 6,000 children died while attending the schools.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the discoveries at both sites "reaffirm the truth" which Indigenous communities "have long know".