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Kamloops discovery prompts call for formal framework to investigate mass graves

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Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond heads the University of British Columbia’s Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, and formerly served as the province’s advocate for children and youth.“A mass grave is a crime scene, it is not a historic site or a heritage site,” Turpel-Lafond told Global News.“It is well and past the time that Canada and provinces, they need to stop treating the finding of human remains of Indigenous people as sort of a heritage issue.”Grief, sorrow after discovery of 215 bodies, unmarked graves at former B.C.

residential school siteThe Kamloops Indian Residential School is but one of many where Turpel-Lafond says Indigenous people have reported children disappearing, but have been given little or no state support.

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