Indigenous advocates won't turn down visit by UN special rapporteur, but are focused on need for criminal prosecution for residential school abuses

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Indigenous advocates won’t turn down visit by UN special rapporteur, but are focused on need for criminal prosecution for residential school abuses bychelseanash The_IRG TanyaTalaga Pam_Palmater michele_audette CdnPoli

From left, Innu Senator Michéle Audette, Mi'kmaq lawyer Pam Palmater, Ojibwe journalist Tanya Talaga, and Indigenous advocate Rose LeMay say they all want to see abusers from the residential schools and those who enabled them held criminally responsible for their actions.The story link will be added automatically.

“For me, each time we add something in the wording of how they think, analyze and manage their democracy, it’s giving us more power when we go in court and when we demonstrate,” she said. Last month, while addressing the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, Archibald urged the special rapporteur to come to Canada to look into the mass graves of children found on the sites of former residential schools, and publicly asked Justin Trudeau to make a formal invitation.

This is not the only international body the AFN has turned to with a request to investigate and prosecute those criminally responsible for the abuse the children of the residential school system endured.

“When you set up a reconciliation commission, the only group, the only entity which can authorize the fund is the federal government or state. Most often the state is the one that’s actually also the perpetrator. So there’s a huge conflict of interest and a lot of tension around the concept of an internal, state reconciliation in Canada.

 

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bychelseanash And Pierre TRudeau skates as well as Chretien too

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bychelseanash 1. Most people who ran these residential schools are either dead or very old. 2. Indigenous people are actively preventing the collecting of evidence. 3. Can you name one specific person who is (1) a victim of a crime or (2) committed a crime?

bychelseanash thought they settled that almost 2 decades and $30 billion ago?

TheHillTimes Wrong, not a single body has been found. Graves in graveyards, no proof of any wrong doing

cblackst bychelseanash The_IRG TanyaTalaga Pam_Palmater michele_audette I would like to talk to you women Indigenous advocates about my Human Rights Complaint! Give me some help; like a referral to a lawyer! Check it out! My GoFundMe will pay you a retainer. Time to help me! This is a Barrell of rotten monkeys so you Media savvy women can handle it!

michele_audette bychelseanash The_IRG TanyaTalaga Pam_Palmater In 1908, lawyer SH Blake asked “in that Canada fails to obviate the preventable causes of death (of children in res. schools), it brings itself into unpleasant nearness with manslaughter.” Time to ask whether gov’t and churches are criminally responsible too

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