Ottawa – A new Children Mass Grave has been found in the backyard of a school in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan bordering the United States. The local agencies informed that this is one more unmarked Children Mass Graves with no confirmed records. This is the second instance of locating an Unmarked Children Mass Grave in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that as a country, Canada will have to accept the responsibilities of the atrocities faced by the indigenous inhabitants of Canada.
The Unmarked Children Mass Grave was found near the Marieval Indian Residential School in the Saskatchewan province. This mass grave near the school has 761 corpses. All these children belong to the original inhabitants or indigenous communities of Canada. The local administration informed that this is the biggest and the most crucial discovery regarding the history of the children from the indigenous communities.
In the 19th and 20th century, the Christian groups started residential schools on a large scale—the Canadian government funded 130 of these schools. Marieval Indian Residential School was one of these schools. In May, another Children Mass Grave was located near a residential school in the Kamloops province in south-central British Columbia in Canada. After that, the agencies in Saskatchewan province started a search campaign using advanced technologies.
Prime Minister Trudeau has expressed deep regret over the incident in the Saskatchewan province. Prime Minister Trudeau said that this is an embarrassing reminder of the atrocities, hatred and racism faced by the indigenous communities of Canada. It is the responsibility of the Canadian population to keep sensitivity, regarding this history, in their minds. Canadian opposition parties accused the prime minister of only giving a verbal consolation, but the feelings do not reflect in his actions.
‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ has been formed to investigate these incidents in these schools. This commission had blamed that these incidents were a part of the cultural Genocide. In 2008, the Canadian government apologised for the policies implemented against the First Nation communities. After that, the Canadian government started a special campaign to search for their missing children and assimilate these first nation communities into Canadian society.