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I never thought the benevolent nation of Canada would be complicit in genocide.  28 mass graves have been found across the giant country- with estimated victims in the thousands.  The victims were aborginal schoolchildren living in “Indian Residential Schools” where they were brutally murdered, burned and buried. 

Who operated these schools?  The Catholic, Anglican and United Churches, along with the Canadian government.  It is safe to say that these entities are responsible for the deaths of their students.

Canada is establishing an investigatory council because: 

“We have no confidence that the very institutions of church and state that are responsible for these deaths can conduct any kind of impartial or real inquiry into them.”

This is the correct way to handle a tragedy.  The only thing that can be said about this event is that Canada, in creating the International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada, is setting an impressive precedent: coping honestly and fairly with the sensitive issue of genocide.  Countries such as Rwanda and Turkey have failed to similarly deal with similar tragedies.  The Council is made up other Indian tribe members, and it has commenced investigation. 

The sites are all adjacent or near schools.  The victims in the graves are children.  Some remains have been found “in the walls” of schools.  Reportedly, there were “body storage rooms” in a school’s basement.  Children were killed by electric chair, flogging and some were burned to death. 

What kind of resolution can be found here?  What will justice bring, and how will it be enacted?  There are no explanations for the deaths, no methodolgy.  The remains are simply scattered across Canada; not even well hidden.  Who is responsible for the eerily similar large scale killings of children? 

The fact remains that this occured not long ago in a democratic country, perpetrated by trusted teachers, religious leaders and with the support of the Canadian government.