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Before the attack on the monuments on Thursday, when Canada Day is traditionally celebrated across the country, the crowd chanted, “No need to be proud of genocide!”
Celebrations were canceled in many cities this year because a scandal caused by the fate of congenital children has caused many Canadians to rethink their colonial past, and the president Justin Trudo has announced that this day will be a “time of reflection”.
In British Columbia and Saskatchewan, the remains of nearly 1,000 children have been found in unmarked cemeteries at former government-funded Indian boarding schools, mostly run by the Catholic Church.
For 165 years, until this practice was completely stopped in 1996, children of the natives were forcibly separated from their families and sent to boarding schools, where they often had to suffer from malnutrition as well as physical or sexual abuse. In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recognized this practice as a “cultural genocide.”
In Winnipeg, at the cheers of a crowd, the Manitoba Provincial Legislative Assembly was demolished British a statue of Queen Victoria, around which vandals continued to dance wildly and kick the desecrated monument. Meanwhile, the pedestal of the monument was covered with red palm prints.
Queen Victoria ruled from 1837 to 1901, when the British Empire, which at that time included Canada, was in its apogee.
However, the same fate befell the nearby statue of the current Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.
The protests also took place in the Canadian financial center of Toronto, while thousands of victims and supporters of the former boarding school system took to the streets in Ottawa under the call “Cancel Canada Day!”
Various protests have also taken place elsewhere in the country. Many of the participants dressed in orange, which has become a symbol of hereditary rights defenders.
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