文章图片

Canada’s records of human rights abuse of Indigenous people
The Lower Kootenay Band, a First Nations community in western Canada, announced on June 30, 2021 that 182 human remainshad been detected by ground-penetrating radar (GPR) at St Eugene’s Mission residential school for Indigenous children in British Columbia.
It is the third discovery of unmarked graves and human remains at the site of former residential schools for Indigenous children since late May this year, when Roseanne Casimir, Chief of the Tk’emlúps te Secwe?pemc First Nation, said in a news release that unmarked burials of 215 studentswere discovered at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, coming after which, Cadmus Delorme, Chief of the Cowessess First Nation, announced on June 24 the discovery of 751 unmarked gravesat the site of a former Catholic residential school in Saskatchewan, a Canadian province.
The shocking and heart-breaking news revealed a long and dark history of the residential school system operated on Indigenous children in the North America which has long been neglected.
‘A policy of cultural genocide’


文章图片

Can
【bodies|Unmarked graves, infant bodies and stories untold: how Canada loses its idyllic vision】

文章图片

ada’s National Truth and Reconciliation Commission stated in a 2015 report titled “What We Have Learned”.
The boarding school policy on-going for more than a century in North America has left generations of Indigenous people with great trauma and in deep wound. Canada’s National Truth and Reconciliation Commission, launched in 2008 to investigate the residential schools, stated in a 2015 report titled “What We Have Learned” that during the Roman Catholic residential schools first founding in the 1860s to the late 1990s, “at least 150,000 First Nation, Métis, and Inuit students passed through the system.”
“The history of residential schools presented in this report commenced by placing the schools in the broader history of the global European colonization of Indigenous peoples and their lands,” the report goes, “residential schooling was only a part of the colonization of Aboriginal people. The policy of colonization suppressed Aboriginal culture and languages, disrupted Aboriginal government, destroyed Aboriginal economies, and confined Aboriginal people to marginal and often unproductive land.”
It is estimated in the report that about 4,100 Indigenous children taken from their families across the country went missing from the school.“That policy was dedicated to eliminating Aboriginal peoples as distinct political and cultural entities and must be described for what it was: a policy of cultural genocide,” the report defined.
Although the residential schools have been closed, the racial discrimination targeting Indigenous peoples in Canada is still a living fact. According to statistics, Indigenous peoples are 58% more likely to be targeted by criminal actsthan non-Indigenous peoples. Indigenous women are 16 times more likely to be murdered or missingthan Caucasian women. Between 1980 and 2015, several thousand Indigenous women were murdered or went missing. However, no solid steps except for single words of apology from the government are yet made to seek the truth.
Same accusation, but wrong country to blame
As Canada joins the US, the UK and Australia to round on China for its treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, those countries appearing as ‘human rights defenders’ remain conspicuously quiet about such evidenced crimes of human rights abuse in Canada. Meantime in June, illegal public hearings were held by the so-called “Uyghur Tribunal” set up by the West to assess China’s abuse of human rights and trace evidence of committing “genocide” in Xinjiang, raising the same accusations of crimes that not China, but themselves had been proven committed to the Indigenous people.

以上关于本文的内容，仅作参考！温馨提示：如遇专业性较强的问题（如：疾病、健康、理财等），还请咨询专业人士给予相关指导!