CANADA
CBC News
By Tim Fontaine, CBC News
The final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was released Monday and reveals in chilling detail the horrors of the residential school system.
Within its over 3,700 pages are stories of children forcibly separated from their families, communities, language and culture who ended up suffering shocking rates of mental, physical and sexual abuse.
Over 3,200 of those children never returned home, with many of their bodies buried in unmarked cemeteries across the country. The majority were taken by disease — tuberculosis, influenza, typhoid and other maladies.
Nearly a dozen, however, died while trying to escape the schools. These accounts are contained in a couple of parts of the TRC’s final report, including one called “Missing Children and Unmarked Burials.”
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