Hundreds of protesters gather in Canada's capital Ottawa as part of MarchforTruthandJustice to demand further efforts to expose the truth about a boarding school system for indigenous children
FILE PHOTO: Recently installed solar lights mark burial sites on Cowessess First Nation, where a search had found 751 unmarked graves from the former Marieval Indian Residential School near Grayson, Saskatchewan, Canada July 6, 2021
Hundreds of protesters in Canada's capital have called for a probe into a boarding school system for indigenous children, as outrage built after the discovery of hundreds ofUntil the 1990s, some 150,000 indigenous, Inuit and Metis youths were forcibly enrolled in the schools, where students were physically and sexually abused by headmasters and teachers who stripped them of their culture and language.
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