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Canada: China seeks probe into Indigenous children’s remains

  

Category:  News & Politics

Via:  hallux  •  3 years ago  •  20 comments

By:   AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

Canada: China seeks probe into Indigenous children’s remains
Joined by Russia, Iran, North Korea and other allies, China calls on the UN Human Rights Council to investigate.

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China and its allies called on Tuesday for an independent investigation into the discovery last month of the   remains   of more than 200   Indigenous children   at a Canadian boarding school.

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were   found   in British Colombia at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, a discovery Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking.

“We call for a thorough and impartial investigation into all cases where crimes were committed against the Indigenous people, especially children, so as to bring those responsible to justice, and offer full remedy to victims,” Jiang Duan, a senior official at China’s mission to the UN in Geneva, told the Human Rights Council.

He read the statement out on behalf of countries including Russia, Belarus, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Venezuela. Canada later delivered a joint statement on behalf of more than 40 countries calling for access to China’s Xinjiang region to look into alleged mass detention of Uighur Muslims.

Canada’s residential school system, which forcibly separated Indigenous children from their families, constituted “cultural genocide”, a six-year investigation into the now-defunct system found in 2015.

Leslie Norton, Canada’s ambassador, told the council that what happened at the Kamloops school was “neither an exception nor an isolated incident” and that Indigenous children had suffered severe injustices and mistreatment over decades.

“As Prime Minister Trudeau recently stated, we also acknowledge that Indigenous people still face systemic racism, discrimination and injustices,” she said, adding that it was addressing issues and supporting communities.

The discovery of the children’s remains in Canada’s westernmost province reopened persistent   wounds   for   First Nations , Métis and Inuit, especially   residential school survivors   and their families.

Canada formally apologised for its residential school system in 2008, and as part of a class-action settlement with survivors, more than $2.68bn ($3.23bn Canadian) in compensation has been paid to more than 26,700 claimants, according to a report issued earlier this year.

Trudeau, who campaigned on a promise to relaunch Ottawa’s relationship with Indigenous people, said earlier this month that the mass grave found at Kamloops residential school was “a painful reminder of that dark and shameful chapter of our country’s history”


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Hallux
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1  seeder  Hallux    3 years ago

A case of the wrong guys asking the right questions ... Canada will shrug this off and see it as for what it is, being good at our job of being a member of 5-Eyes.

 
 
 
shona1
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1.1  shona1  replied to  Hallux @1    3 years ago

5 eyes?? Here we call it 4 eyes and a blink... NZ is dragging the chain..

 
 
 
Hallux
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1.1.1  seeder  Hallux  replied to  shona1 @1.1    3 years ago

lol

 
 
 
Trotsky's Spectre
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1.2  Trotsky's Spectre  replied to  Hallux @1    3 years ago

'...a discovery Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking.'

'...we also acknowledge that Indigenous people still face systemic racism, discrimination and injustices...'

'...a painful reminder of that dark and shameful chapter of our country’s history.'

These statements are repeated every few years. There will be a protest, an investigation, a committee. Media plays it up. Nothing changes. One might wonder why ...

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Kavika
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2  Kavika     3 years ago

Wrong guys asking the right questions, yes that is obvious it remains to be seen what the Canadian government will do to address the situation with the First Nations people.

 
 
 
Hallux
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2.1  seeder  Hallux  replied to  Kavika @2    3 years ago

Alas, as it has always done, one insufficient sluggish step at a time. There are still in Canada large swathes of people who see Natives as drunken whiners.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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2.2  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Kavika @2    3 years ago

Not that there shouldn't be further investigations with the Canadian boarding schools, but what these countries, especially China, are trying to do is say look there and not here, considering the Uighur Muslims. 

 
 
 
Hallux
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2.2.1  seeder  Hallux  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @2.2    3 years ago

This was coming, remember that Putin claimed Canada was  No.2 behind the US when it came to Cyber shenanigans. On a lighter side, Australia thinks it is the better of the 5.

 
 
 
Kavika
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2.2.2  Kavika   replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @2.2    3 years ago

What China, Russia and NK are saying is ''people in glass houses should throw rocks''...If they really wanted to go all-in they could have a field day with the US and Canada and their century-old racist towards its indigenous people and anyone not white.

Simple as that.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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2.2.3  Sean Treacy  replied to  Kavika @2.2.2    3 years ago
hat China, Russia and NK are saying is ''people in glass houses should throw rocks''...I

Sure. You are just as oppressed as an Uigher. 

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
2.2.4  seeder  Hallux  replied to  Sean Treacy @2.2.3    3 years ago

Sorry for the antifa spell check but what's a "Uigher"? /S

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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2.2.5  Sean Treacy  replied to  Hallux @2.2.4    3 years ago

Uighur , Chinese (Pinyin)  Weiwu’er , also spelled  Uygur  or  Uyghur , a Turkic-speaking people of interior Asia. Uighurs live for the most part in northwestern  China , in the Uygur  Autonomous  Region of  Xinjiang ; a small number live in the Central Asian republics. There were some 10,000,000 Uighurs in China and at least a combined total of 300,000 in  Uzbekistan Kazakhstan , and  Kyrgyzstan  in the early 21st century.

They've been in the news. I'm surprised you haven't heard anything.  

 
 
 
Hallux
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2.2.6  seeder  Hallux  replied to  Sean Treacy @2.2.5    3 years ago

I know who they are, I met a bunch of them in Dublin 1999.

 
 
 
shona1
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2.2.7  shona1  replied to  Hallux @2.2.1    3 years ago

First I have heard of it..we are no better or no worse than anyone else...what makes you think otherwise??

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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2.2.8  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  shona1 @2.2.7    3 years ago
"First I have heard of it..we are no better or no worse than anyone else...what makes you think otherwise??"

You are quite right, Shona1,  Everyone has their dirty laundry, so I doubt that ANY nation can come to the table with clean hands.  When I started to teach Australian law, I was quite surprised to see that the indigenous Australians did not have the same riights as the colonists and their present descendants.

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Of course the purpose for the USA to cast stones at China is so obvious - it is to hinder China's rise so that it does not overtake the USA as the world's number one nation. 

 
 
 
shona1
Professor Quiet
2.2.9  shona1  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @2.2.8    3 years ago

Evening Buzz. Must have been many moons ago you taught that.

Things have changed a lot for the Koori people and things have come along way since those days...and yes we still have away to go.

I for one am very proud of the Kooris and they have my greatest respect. 

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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2.2.10  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  shona1 @2.2.9    3 years ago

Yeah, I'm sure there must have been some changes as I've not taught Australian Law for the past 9 years.

 
 
 
Kavika
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2.2.11  Kavika   replied to  Sean Treacy @2.2.3    3 years ago

Another ignorant comment, well done Sean. 

My comment is to be taken in a historical context but I know that's probably too much for simple minds, so carry on.

 
 
 
Hallux
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2.2.12  seeder  Hallux  replied to  shona1 @2.2.7    3 years ago

It was just a joke. I just finished watching both seasons of Secret City on Netflix ... fabulous show!

 
 
 
shona1
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2.2.13  shona1  replied to  Hallux @2.2.12    3 years ago

No worries..never heard of Secret City...glad you enjoyed it..

 
 

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