Canadian lawmakers acknowledge genocide in residential schools

2022-10-31 03:39:34

(MENAFN) According to the motion, the schools that the Canadian government compelled 150,000 First Nations, Metis, and Inuit students to attend between the 1870s and 1997 fulfilled the UN's definition of genocide, which is the purpose to eliminate "in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group."

While the term is commonly understood to mean killing members of the targeted group, it also includes "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group," and "forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

In accordance with the motion, the schools that the Canadian government compelled 150,000 First Nations, Metis, and Inuit students to attend between the 1870s and 1997 fulfilled the UN's definition of genocide, which is the purpose to eliminate "in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group."

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