{"id":117940,"date":"2021-09-08T16:18:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117940"},"modified":"2021-09-08T16:18:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:18:14","slug":"erasing-the-eelam-victory-part-23-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/08\/erasing-the-eelam-victory-part-23-g\/","title":{"rendered":"ERASING THE EELAM VICTORY Part 23 G"},"content":{"rendered":"

KAMALIKA PIERIS<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

At the June 2021 session\nof the UNHRC in Geneva, Canada led an alliance of 44 States (mainly Western and\nEuropean countries), demanding that China allow meaningful and unfettered\naccess to investigate credible reports of widespread human rights violations\nagainst China’s Muslim minority Uighur in Xinjiang province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immediately after\nthis China delivered a joint statement, on behalf of eight countries (Belarus,\nChina, DPRK, Iran, Russia, Sri Lanka, Syria, and Venezuela) expressing \u2018[deep\nconcern] about serious human rights violations against the indigenous people\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada,\u2019 and demanding a UN investigation into Canada\u2019s serious human\nrights violations against indigenous people.\u2019\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a\nreference to the recent discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of\nover 200 children, at the site of a former \u2018residential school\u2019 for indigenous\nchildren in British Columbia. China argued that the discovery of the mass grave\ndemonstrates long-standing discrimination against indigenous people in Canada,\nand drew particular attention to the treatment of indigenous children from the\n1830s to the 1990s. During this period, many children were forcibly taken away\nfrom their parents and sent to boarding schools, where they were often victims\nof malnutrition, violence, rape, and abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada has this image internationally of a\ngreat defender of human rights violations, the protector of human rights\nthroughout the world, but in its own backyard it has \u2019 violated the rights\nof   the indigenous inhabitants, agreed\ncritics. Canada\u2019s ugly record of\nGenocide is now emerging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada has its\nown ugly record of Genocide, critics said. Canada destroyed the indigenous\npeople of Canada. There was forced sterilization. Canada created a special\nschool system for the indigenous children, the Resident or Industrial School\nsystem run by the Federal Government and the Church. Residential Schools were\npart of a policy to eliminate Aboriginal people as distinct peoples\nand to assimilate them into the Canadian mainstream against their will.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the 19th century until the 1970s, more\nthan 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend state-funded Christian\nschools, most run by Roman Catholic missionary congregations, in a campaign to\nassimilate them into Canadian society. Nearly three-quarters of the 130\nresidential schools were run by Catholic missionary congregations, with others\noperated by the United, Presbyterian and Anglican churches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This school\nsystem removed children from parents, who were not permitted to visit their\nchildren. They in fact never saw their children again. The result was children\nwho lacked family love and parental guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 70% of\nthe children were tortured, sexually abused by school teachers, priests, and\nnuns. When they left school after 10 years, their level of knowledge and\neducation was at the level of a Grade 2 child. They did not receive higher\neducation or skills. They often resorted to larceny, drug and alcohol\naddiction, ending up as urban poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five\ngenerations of children went through this school system. Between1890-1970 over\n100,000 children were forced to attend 139 resident schools. The Truth and\nReconciliation Commission of Canada in 2015 released its final report,\ndocumenting the tragic experience of at least 150,000 residential\nschool students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government has admitted that physical and\nsexual abuse was rampant in the schools, with students beaten for speaking\ntheir native languages. Thousands of children died there of disease and other\ncauses, many never returned to their families. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discovery of 600 or more remains of\nchildren at the Marieval Indian Residential School, which operated from 1899 to\n1997, in the province of Saskatchewan, the remains of 215 children, some as\nyoung as 3, were found buried on the site of what was once Canada\u2019s largest\nIndigenous residential school near Kamloops, British Columbia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadians across the country are waking up to\nsomething that quite frankly that Indigenous communities have long known,\u201d Mr.\nTrudeau said . Canada\u2019s genocide was camouflaged as state policy and it was\ncarried out with state patronage and blessings. Former Prime Minister Stephen\nHarper issued a formal apology in Parliament in 2008 and Canada offered\nbillions of dollars in compensation as part of a lawsuit settlement between the\ngovernment, churches and the approximately 90,000 surviving students. ( CONTINUED) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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