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DUNCAN – The stories are horrifying , but a generation of residential school survivors are ready to speak out.
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has continued its tour of Vancouver Island offering a safe place to speak out in the Cowichan Valley. Today hundreds packed a First Nations Long House to support a group of former students who underwent extreme physical, mental, and sexual abuse inside BC residential schools.
One mans story brought the entire audience to tears when he spoke of repeated sexual assault inside a Vancouver Island residential school. The former students testimonial took an even more grim turn when he spoke of how the teacher also targeted his little brother. ” My bother didn’t cooperate” the now senior citizen told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission officials, ” so he ran towards the bedroom window and jumped out of it.”
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