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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>BBC<\/b> – A mass grave containing the remains of 215 children has been found in Canada at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people.<\/p>\n

The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978.<\/p>\n

The discovery was announced on Thursday by the chief of the Tk\u2019emlups te Secwepemc First Nation.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it was a \u201cpainful reminder\u201d of a \u201cshameful chapter of our country\u2019s history\u201d.<\/p>\n

The First Nation is working with museum specialists and the coroner\u2019s office to establish the causes and timings of the deaths, which are not currently known.<\/p>\n

Rosanne Casimir, the chief of the community in British Columbia\u2019s city of Kamloops, said the preliminary finding represented an unthinkable loss that was never documented by the school\u2019s administrators.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s residential schools were compulsory boarding schools run by the government and religious authorities during the 19th and 20th Centuries with the aim of forcibly assimilating indigenous youth.<\/p>\n

Kamloops Indian Residential School was the largest in the residential system. Opened under Roman Catholic administration in 1890, the school had as many as 500 students when enrolment peaked in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

The central government took over administration of the school in 1969, operating it as a residence for local students until 1978, when it was closed.<\/p>\n

The Tk\u2019emlups te Secwepemc First Nation said the remains were found with the help of a ground-penetrating radar during a survey of the school.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths,\u201d Ms Casimir said. \u201cSome were as young as three years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sought out a way to confirm that knowing out of deepest respect and love for those lost children and their families, understanding that Tk\u2019emlups te Secwepemc is the final resting place of these children.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tribe said it had reached out to the home communities whose children attended the school. They expected to have preliminary findings by mid-June.<\/p>\n

British Columbia\u2019s chief coroner Lisa Lapointe told Canadian broadcaster CBC \u201cwe are early in the process of gathering information\u201d.<\/p>\n

The reaction has been one of shock, grief and contrition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe news that remains were found at the former Kamloops residential school breaks my heart,\u201d Mr Trudeau wrote in a tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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