The bones of more than 200 Aboriginal children unearthed at the Catholic School in Vancouver

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 Horrific and heartbreaking news coming from Canada today, with the discovery of the bones of more than 200 indigenous children at a Catholic residential school in Vancouver, some as young as three years old. 

The indigenous families were forced by law to send their children to Kamloops School, where pupils were sexually, physically and mentally abused for decades, and the school only closed in the late 1980s. 

Many children simply disappeared, and their parents were told they ‘must have use run off’. After a Truth and Reconciliation process, 94 recommendations were made to address the concerns of indigenous people who revealed years of abuse and neglect that took place at Kamloops. They say few of these recommendations have ever been realised. 

The bones were only finally found after radar equipment was hired by the families of the missing children, who had always known that that their children must have been killed, but had no way to prove it until now. 

Today those families created a memorial for their ‘missing’ children by placing 215 pairs of little shoes in a circle - one for every child whose skeleton was found.