Another 182 unmarked graves found at third Canadian school
Flags mark suspected unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan on Saturday. (AP pic)
OTTAWA: Another 182 unmarked graves have been discovered at a third indigenous residential school in Canada, a local tribe announced yesterday, on the heels of two similar finds amounting to hundreds of burials.
Experts used ground penetrating radar mapping to locate what are believed to be the remains of pupils aged seven to 15 at the former St Eugene’s Mission School near Cranbrook, British Columbia, the Lower Kootenay Band said in a statement.
The grim development follows the discovery of remains of 215 children in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia in May and 751 more unmarked graves at another school in Marieval in Saskatchewan last week.
The Lower Kootenay Band said a search of the Cranbrook site, where the Catholic Church operated a school on behalf of the federal government from 1912 until the early 1970s, was started last year.
Some of the graves were as shallow as three to four feet deep, it said.
They are believed to be the remains of members of bands of the Ktunaxa nation, which includes the Lower Kootenay, and other neighbouring indigenous communities.
Until the 1990s, some 150,000 Indian, Inuit and Metis youngsters were forcibly enrolled in 139 of these residential schools, where students were physically and sexually abused by headmasters and teachers who stripped them of their culture and language.
More than 4,000 died of disease and neglect in the schools, according to a commission of inquiry that concluded Canada had committed “cultural genocide”.
Last Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologised for the “harmful government policy” of indigenous assimilation.
OTTAWA: Another 182 unmarked graves have been discovered at a third indigenous residential school in Canada, a local tribe announced yesterday, on the heels of two similar finds amounting to hundreds of burials.
Experts used ground penetrating radar mapping to locate what are believed to be the remains of pupils aged seven to 15 at the former St Eugene’s Mission School near Cranbrook, British Columbia, the Lower Kootenay Band said in a statement.
The grim development follows the discovery of remains of 215 children in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia in May and 751 more unmarked graves at another school in Marieval in Saskatchewan last week.
The Lower Kootenay Band said a search of the Cranbrook site, where the Catholic Church operated a school on behalf of the federal government from 1912 until the early 1970s, was started last year.
Some of the graves were as shallow as three to four feet deep, it said.
They are believed to be the remains of members of bands of the Ktunaxa nation, which includes the Lower Kootenay, and other neighbouring indigenous communities.
Until the 1990s, some 150,000 Indian, Inuit and Metis youngsters were forcibly enrolled in 139 of these residential schools, where students were physically and sexually abused by headmasters and teachers who stripped them of their culture and language.
More than 4,000 died of disease and neglect in the schools, according to a commission of inquiry that concluded Canada had committed “cultural genocide”.
Last Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologised for the “harmful government policy” of indigenous assimilation.
Everywhere people cover up past bad deeds like Britannia, Canadians, Australians and oso Bullyland, which today celebrate 100 years birthday and Modern Mao try to look like Original Mao by wearing Green Suit while giving speech but never saying sorry for past deeds.
ReplyDeleteQUOTE (Wikipedia lah for those too lazy to look)
The Great Leap Forward (Second Five Year Plan) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1958 to 1962. Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes. Mao decreed increased efforts to multiply grain yields and bring industry to the countryside. Local officials were fearful of Anti-Rightist Campaigns and competed to fulfill or over-fulfill quotas based on Mao's exaggerated claims, collecting "surpluses" that in fact did not exist and leaving farmers to starve. Higher officials did not dare to report the economic disaster caused by these policies, and national officials, blaming bad weather for the decline in food output, took little or no action. The Great Leap resulted in tens of millions of deaths, with estimates ranging between 15 and 55 million deaths, making the Great Chinese Famine the largest famine in human history.
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CPC made mistakes just like all other countries during her foundational years of establishing a clear path for nationhood.
DeleteThe Great Leap - the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes was part of the learning curve that the nation must partook. It was a well intended decision for the dirt poor nation just coming out from a prolonged war.
Part of its failures lied with human greeds. Part of it with inexperienced administrators too eager to chase unachievable targets. Part of it weather as detailed in this CIA report - SNIE 13-61 THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN COMMUNIST CHINA
The greatest culprit was the total foreign sanctions of almost every humanitarian aids to the then communist China!
When the national crops failed, the ONLY outside aids THEN were contributed by the oversea Chinese. KMT controlled Taiwan did nothing! So too r all the 'charitable' & 'humanistic' organisations of the world! All of them were just counting on the ultimate demise of the communist China.
BTW, since u r so trustful about western data, could u change yr f*cked 'estimates ranging between 15 and 55 million deaths' to those mentioned in that CIA disclosure?
Would u, AGAIN, blurred small minded mfer?
Today celebrate 100 birthday but Modern Mao in Green Suit never say sorry for past deeds of the Original Mao like Trudeau now saying sorry to Native Canadians for past deeds.
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Xunhua Incident
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Xunhua Incident (Chinese: 循化事件) was an uprising of Tibetan and Salar people against the rule of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Qinghai, China in April, 1958. The incident took place in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County of Qinghai Province, the hometown of 10th Panchen Lama, amid the Great Leap Forward. Since March 1958, local officials imposed strict rules for socialist transformations and, in order to prevent uprising, religious leaders including Jnana Pal Rinpoche (加乃化仁波切), a well-respected monk, were forcibly sent for re-education. Over 4,000 people with different ethnic backgrounds subsequently revolted and killed a team leader from the CCP task force.The incident ended in suppression and a massacre by the People's Liberation Army, which killed 435 people within four hours on April 25, most of whom were unarmed civilians.
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Has Boris Johnston or Biden ever said sorry for the effect and consequences of Anglo-American colonialization?
Deletetypo* - Johnson
DeleteBiden no need to apologise. Past presidents, Senate/Congress oredy did.
DeleteNow waiting for CCP's turn.
US Apology to Native Americans:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/14/text?format=xml
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-109shrg21531/html/CHRG-109shrg21531.htm
https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/sjres14/BILLS-111sjres14is.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_Resolution
The Xunhua Incident (循化事件) happened in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County of Qinghai Province, the hometown of 10th Panchen Lama.
DeleteZhu Xiafu (朱侠夫), the vice secretary of CCP committee in Qinghai, called on fast socialist transformations of nomads and set quota for different areas, forcibly establishing the socialist cooperatives for animal husbandry.
Zhu was convinced that in order to totally eliminate the hateful hereditary 农奴 system, a new & strict rules for socialist transformations must be imposed upon the Xunhua Salar Autonomous County.
Part of the directive of the Central Committee of CPCP began to "use meetings and study sessions to rein in the minority religious leaders" for socialistic reeducations. This was bcoz these elite Lama still command respect s, fears & mental control over the peasants.
Due to the low level of education & generations of indoctrination, the general peasants were unable to accept the drastic & sometimes draconian enforcements even though the new policies released them from the cruel meme-ed bondages to the ruling Lama class.
When Jnana Pal Rinpoche (加乃化仁波切), a prestigious monk from Bimdo Monastery (温都寺) who was a vice administrator of Xunhua County and had taught Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama, were forcibly sent for re-education riots happened. There were clear evidences that these riots were instigated by many dissatisfied elite Lama who had lost their inherited class privileges. There were foreign influences too, especially the British Commonwealth outpost in India.
It was estimated that over 4,000 people, many with arms smuggled from India, subsequently revolted and killed a team leader from the CCP task force. The incident ended when the PLA moved in to suppress the riots.
The Xunhua Incident is an unfortunately a classic case of force-marching an ancient & deeply meme-ed zombies into modernisation that they don't understand & ready! With foreign influences too.
The fault of Zhu Xiafu lied in been too eager to help a group of long deprived peasants from the truly evil hereditary 农奴 system. Perhaps, this has something to do with his own dirt poor upbringing & his hatted for the elite class.
Blurred mfer, an advice. Next time don't just do simple c&p farts that appeal to yr f*cking sense of China/CPC/Chinese bashing!
Especially Tibet - check hereditary 农奴 system before u fart.
Maybe it's too much to ask a simpleton to do in-depth researches about a subject that it thoughts it could used to its advantages!
BTW, China has nothing to apologize vis-a-vis the The Xunhua Incident (循化事件)!
CCP cock-sucker indeed.
DeleteIs that the BEST u can farted?
DeleteWakakakaka…
Stay put with yr silverfspooned heirloom. It's the only thing u have - just for this generation!
Cock-sucking yr brlived demoNcratic capitalism WON'T help yr fortune last.
Canada oredy apologised back in 2017, more will probably come following the latest revelations.
ReplyDeleteHow about 100 year old party with 5000 yo "civilization"?
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Trudeau Apologizes for Abuse and ‘Profound Cultural Loss’ at Indigenous Schools
Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press
By Ian Austen
Nov. 24, 2017
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered a broad and emotional apology on Friday to indigenous people in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, where for much of the 20th century indigenous children were compelled to attend boarding schools that separated them from their families and cultures and, in many cases, subjected them to abuse.
In addition to the apology, the Canadian government settled a class-action lawsuit and will provide about 50 million Canadian dollars to about 900 former students of the five schools, which endured until 1980.
The decision came after a decade-long controversy over the federal government’s responsibility.
In 2008, Mr. Trudeau’s predecessor, Stephen Harper, apologized to indigenous people in the rest of Canada for a residential school program the federal government operated from the 19th century until 1996. A national Truth and Reconciliation Commission later condemned that system as a form of “cultural genocide.”
Because Newfoundland and Labrador did not join Canada until 1949, its boarding school system had different origins even if it had a similar legacy. Mr. Harper’s government took the view that the abuses committed there in the early 20th century were not the federal government’s fault.
But in a ceremony in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland, at which victims also spoke, Mr. Trudeau said, “It’s time for Canada to acknowledge its history for what it is: flawed, imperfect and unfinished.”
“For far too many students, profound cultural loss led to poverty, family violence, substance abuse and community breakdown,” Mr. Trudeau said. “It led to mental and physical health issues that have impeded their happiness and that of their family. Far too many continue to face adversity today as a result of time spent in residential schools, and for that we are sorry.”
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US must apologise for, among many issues of atrocities and oppression, My Lai, the horrors of Agent Orange, throwing Vietcong prisoners out of helicopters while in flight (Vietnam), Bagram (Afghanistan), Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib (Iraq), Libya.
DeleteBritain could start off with the oppressions of the Opium Wars and their aftermaths in China, oppressed seizure of Hong Kong, Sepoy Mutiny (India), murder of the last Muslim Emperor of India, theft of the Koh-i-Noor, theft of Rosetta Stone (Egypt), Eglin Marbles (Greece) and numerous various issues of oppression and brutalities - that's just a start
Blurred mfer, what have China needed to apologize?
DeleteGame to go over some cases?
BTW, make very sure u know about atrocities done in the name of system & individual!
64?
Wakakakakakaka…
We are talking about apologising to your own people, own natives for local historical misdeeds but now KT wants to drag out the long international laundry list. Manyak Susah Loh.
DeleteMfer, DON'T change the subject of discussion by twisting!
DeleteU ain't wordsmith.
If u truly keeping to yr f*cked honesty then WHY must apologies have to be selective?
U do wrong u apologize, regardless of the wrong done to whom.
Perhaps in that fart filled well, like everything else, apology can be selective!
By yr f*cked argument SHOULDN'T the m'sian govt apologize to the gullible zombies for her handling of the memali incident, as continuously demanded by pus?
DeleteThose memali melayu were exactly in the same mold as those meme-ed Tibetans in the The Xunhua Incident!
Meme-ed via yrs of faith indoctrination, even though they were the ultimate victims eho were been exploited by the elite clergy of f*cked standing. They still believe in the f*cked holiness!
Maybe u r one of those poor pygmy.
The CCP has yet to apologise for the 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 Chinese people who died between 1957 - 1962 as a result of policies and actions taken by the CCP.
ReplyDeleteRead CIA report - SNIE 13-61 THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN COMMUNIST CHINA
DeleteOld moneyed mfer, unless suddenly yr favourite Yankee intelligentsia tak pakai!
Yr old cesspool concentrate regurgitates by katak for so long & so frequent that guys have practically 'whitewashed' it!