In Vancouver, the 215 children whose bodies were found in a re-education home for indigenous people in western Canada were remembered with little shoes. How the children in this Catholic institution died decades ago is now to be clarified. The indigenous community of Kamploops wants to publish a report on this in June.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Twitter that – to honor the children – the flags on official buildings will be raised at half mast.
The children’s bodies were discovered on radar images of the area.
The Canadian government had apologized in previous years for the re-education measures in boarding schools and the “cultural genocide”, but the trauma runs deep.
Under the slogan “Every Child Matters”, many want to wear orange T-shirts this Monday out of solidarity.
An organizer of the memorial event asked for prayers for these children who would now be received by their ancestors after a canoe trip on the other side of the river.
On Twitter, a user who calls himself LakotaMan1 remembers that in the 1950s, indigenous children could still be bought in Canada – for 10 Canadian dollars.
From the late 19th century until the late 1960s, 150,000 Indigenous children in Canada were separated from their families and forced to convert to Christianity in homes.
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