Unmarked children’s graves affects hundreds of Indigenous people

Last month, hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former Indian residential school in British Columbia were discovered by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. These government-funded residential schools had the objective of taking “Indigenous children away from their families, with the aim of “[killing] the Indian in the child”.” Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2008 to 2015) resulted in 94 recommendations including calling for resources to locate the graves of the countless number of children who died in these institutions. As this recommendation was not executed, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc raised funds for ground-penetrating radar to find the children. Child Identity Protection sincerely hopes that Canadian authorities will implement measures to respect obligations under article 8(2) CRC to speedily re-establish missing elements of children’s identities.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/canada-remains-indigenous-children-mass-graves and https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/09/discovery-mass-graves-canada-indigenous-people-first-nations-residential-schools