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Canada’s indigenous schools policy was ‘cultural genocide’, says report

Canadian governments and churches pursued a policy of "cultural genocide" against the country’s aboriginal people throughout the 20th century, according to an investigation into a long-suppressed history that saw 150,000 Native, or First Nations, children forcibly removed from their families and incarcerated in residential schools rife with abuse.

After seven years of hearings, and testimony from thousands of witnesses, the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission called on Tuesday for a new era of forgiveness and understanding even as it exposed the cultural and personal devastation inflicted by the residential schools policy in excruciating detail.

John Barber in Toronto

Full Story: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/02/canada-indigenous-schools-cultural-genocide-report

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