The "tip of the iceberg" of Canadian genocide

　　Recently, more than 160 unmarked graves were discovered near the site of an aboriginal children’s boarding school in British Columbia, Canada.

This is the fourth time in more than two months that a large number of unmarked graves have been found near the former site of the aboriginal children’s boarding school.

The youngest of the dead was only 3 years old.

These findings aroused the international community's attention and indignation towards Canada's criminal history of human rights.

　　The detention of indigenous children in the name of "boarding schools" and the cultural genocide against them can be described as a very dark history in Canada.

In 2015, the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued an authoritative report after six years of investigation, stating that from the 1840s to the 1990s, at least 150,000 aboriginal children were forced to be sent to boarding schools for "assimilation."

The conditions of these schools are extremely poor, students are generally malnourished, many children have been abused and sexually assaulted, and at least 3,200 people have been abused to death.

The report determined that the Canadian government’s practice of establishing and operating aboriginal boarding schools was "cultural extinction."

　　In fact, some aboriginal Canadians began to seek justice for the atrocities they had suffered in children’s boarding schools decades ago, but they have not been able to attract attention.

It was not until 2007 that the Canadian government set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to specifically address issues related to boarding schools for Aboriginal children.

　　To this day, Canada’s systemic discrimination against Aboriginals has not ceased.

Data shows that the probability of aboriginal people being attacked by criminal acts is 58% higher than that of non-indigenous people; the probability of aboriginal women being murdered and missing is 16 times higher than that of whites. Thousands of aboriginal women were murdered between 1980 and 2015 Or missing.

　　The Russian Satellite News Agency commented that the "reserved areas" of the aboriginal people are currently the worst living conditions in Canada, and many aborigines have become "marginal people" in cities.

The Canadian "National Post" website also published an article that most of the 94 measures proposed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 aimed at improving the livelihood of the indigenous people have not been fully implemented.

　　The international community is shocked by Canada’s serious racial problems.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Bachelet urged the Canadian government to launch an investigation into the issue of "genocide" among indigenous people.

She pointed out that the Canadian government’s past and current policies and inaction on certain matters are tantamount to genocide of the indigenous people and violated international law.

At the forty-seventh session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, representatives of many countries called for a comprehensive and impartial investigation of the mutilation of indigenous Canadians to ensure that all those responsible are brought to justice.

　　At the same time, Canada has not deeply introspected and comprehensively investigated its own human rights issues.

Zayas, a former senior UN human rights expert, said that he had received a 10-page response from the Canadian side on the human rights situation of indigenous groups in the country. 》Not legally binding.

Zayas said: "This is another example of hypocrisy and double standards."

　　Robert Dussett, the former chairman of the Aboriginal Metis Organization of Saskatchewan, Canada, recently published an article accusing the Canadian government of hypocrisy on the issue of indigenous peoples.

He said that the discovery of the remains of Aboriginal children on the site of the Aboriginal boarding school is just the "tip of the iceberg" and that "Canadians are not ready for everything that is coming."

Dussett also questioned in the article: "If the governments of Canada and other countries actively prosecute people who murder indigenous peoples in other countries, why don’t the Canadian federal and provincial governments take any action against individuals and organizations that abuse, harm, and murder indigenous children here? Take the same action?"

　　(This newspaper, Washington, August 9th)

　　Our reporter Li Zhiwei in the United States