Kamloops Indian Residential School mass grave is a crime scene

Whether you call it a mass grave of children; or a common grave; or an unmarked, overgrown meadow holding young bones that never got to grow, it is a Canadian atrocity.
Indigenous children, pictured in this undated photo, at Roman Catholic Indian Residential School in Fort Resolution, N.W.T. Instead of gesturing to First Nations, politicians of all stripes have a primary duty to identify who these children were before they disappeared into a brutal gulag that masqueraded as a school for decades. Of course it was not a school. It was a re-education camp to extinguish the unwanted identity of a hopelessly vulnerable group of child inmates, writes Michael Harris. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/Library and Archives Canada
Opinion
BY MICHAEL HARRIS
June 7, 2021

HALIFAX—No matter how else it can be described—hell on Earth comes to mind—the Kamloops Indian Residential School is a crime scene.

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