I see that you agree with the term 'cultural genocide', a term used by
the white led Truth & Reconciliation Commission (Report 2015)
You say that the children died of loneliness, inadequate care, harsh
discipline or disease but were not directly killed.
How would you know what really happened without further investigation or
testimony?
The Anglos are masters with a versatile language like English at
inventing categories that absolve themselves from blame.
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Children were separated from their families, some of them as young as
three.
Can you imagine the trauma suffered by the children, deprived of the
warmth and close contact with their parents? And what of teen girls in
their menstrual years? Did they receive adequate advice and protection?
In the schools, children were forbidden to speak their language or
practice their own culture. Many children also suffered physical and
sexual abuse. Over 150,000 children passed through the school system and
the last school was closed as recently as 1996.
Trudeau who is Catholic met the Pope in 2017 and said that he had a
"deeply personal and wide-ranging, thoughtful conversation with the
leader of my own faith".
“I told him how important it is for Canadians to move forward on real
reconciliation with the indigenous peoples and I highlighted how he
could help by issuing an apology,” Trudeau told reporters after meeting
the pope in Rome.
PM Justin Trudeau admitted that that successive Canadian governments
"have failed" indigenous people and promised to outline a "national
action plan" to tackle the violence.
But the holy man of the Europe, Pope Francis, said he was pained but
refused to apologise. Is there were legal implications, should a top
religious leader fear and dodge them? After all, he has accepted the
titles Supreme Pontiff and Vicar of Christ. How could Christ's Vicar be
a weakling and coward?
In any case, do clerical or government apologies mean anything without
return of vast stolen land and payment of trillions of dollars in
reparations? Were any of the white priests and nuns punished?
Women and girls suffered tremendously.
Pamela Palmater, chair inIndigenous Governance, Ryerson university, told
RT that she favoured political pressure on Ottawa to"do something and
toactually investigate state actors who are complicit or directly
involved in themurders, exploitation and disappearances of indigenous
women and girls."
"Rrampant violence againstindigenous people had been ignored for
decades" she said.
"It's almostlike the #MeToo movement when mso-ansi-language:EN">women
have not been believed when they were raped orsexually assaulted. For
indigenous women and girls it had been evenworse."
mso-ansi-language:EN">According to Royal Canadian Mounted Police
estimates backin 2014, over 1,000 aboriginal women were killed between
1980 and 2012.
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The Chinese government demanded at the UN that the Canadian government
should open a full investigation of the violence against native people
and violation of the human rights.
In contrast, India did not issue any statement on the scandal of the
Native children of Canada.
Had Modi even heard of the scandal or was he preoccupied with his gods
and godmen, cows and caste, and petty political issues?
Eddie
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------ Original Message ------
From: "Roland Francis" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, 26 Jun, 21 At 23:33
Subject: [Goanet] 751 Graves in Residential Schools
Eddie,
Although you have not qualified the word genocide with “cultural” it
is important to call it what it is “cultural genocide” or else one might
get the impression the whole race of indigenous children of the First
Nations were slaughtered or killed.
The sins of the white priests and nuns running these schools might have
been horror-provoking but the graves being found were not of children
that were killed by those in authority whatever else might have been the
indignities heaped on them.
Those graves contain the bodies of children that died of loneliness or
insufficient care or tortuous discipline, even of disease but they were
not directly killed.
That is the narrative that is known to us so far, unless the Church
agrees to open its records and we know otherwise.
Autopsies on bones are not possible because in the Indigenous culture,
burial mounds (graves) are sacred, worthy of worship and no one will be
allowed to work on them. Analyses of remains might have told us the
story of those buried.
While the Catholic Church does not apologize for the treatment of these
wards in their schools, the government on several occasions has
expressed public remorse. The Church might be afraid of the legal
ramifications, the Government has no such fears.
Roland.
Eddie D’Sa wrote:
751 unmarked graves believed to include the burial sites of Native
children from a Catholic residential school have been found in Canada,
in Saskatchewan province. The graves were found in a cemetery at the
former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan province,
which borders the US to the south. The Catholic institution operated for
almost a century from 1899 to 1997, as part of a Canadian school system
created to europeanise native children by forcibly taking the children
from their parents and destroying their culture. This seems to be the
white man's way. Last month, the remains of 215 children, some as young
as three years of age, were discovered at a similar burial site near
former school grounds in the province of British Columbia. Pope Francis
said the findings pained but he would not apologise. Looks like the
white-led Church only apologises for white victims. The Federation of
Sovereign Indigenous First Nations (FSIN) said that ground-penetrating
radar had been used to locate unmarked graves. At a news conference on
Thursday, Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme said research teams had
registered 751 “recorded hits” in their scans of the site, but that each
grave could contain more than one set of remains, and further technical
examinations would be carried out. There are oral stories that there are
adults in this gravesite, as well,”Earlier, local political leaders
called on the Catholic Church to release its records relating to the
schools and its students. “We need to work alongside the communities
that continue to search the residential school sites and make sure we
find all of these unmarked graves,” politician Ryan Meili said in a CBC
interview. The indigenous school system was funded by the Canadian
government and run by the Catholic Church, and operated until the late
1990s. There were nearly 140 such institutions around the country, with
an enrolment of some 150,000 Native children who had been forcibly taken
from their families to be taught a new language, culture, and religion.
Canada has accused Beijing of genocide, but ignores its own genocide.
Eddie
