History of residential school cemeteries is evidence of genocide, interlocutor says – Atin Ito News
July 4 2024
The history of residential school burial sites is evidence of crimes against humanity that could in theory be prosecuted, the special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked burials says.
Kimberly Murray, a federally appointed official tasked with recommending a new framework for the treatment of these sites, outlines the conclusion in a report released Wednesday.
“The histories of the cemeteries that were located at former Indian residential school sites are evidence of genocide and mass human rights violations,” says the report, titled Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience.
“The lack of care given to Indigenous children during their lives at Indian residential schools carried over to their deaths and burials.”
