The Canadian Indian residential school system (horror story)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadi..._school_system In the 19th and 20th century, the Canadian federal government's Indian Affairs department officially encouraged the growth of the Indian residential school system as a valuable agent in a wider policy of assimilating Aboriginal peoples in Canada into European-Canadian society.[3] A key goal of the system, which often separated children from their families and communities, has been described as cultural genocide or "killing the Indian in the child".[4][5] Specific laws also linked the apparatus of the residential schools to the compulsory sterilization of students in 1928 in Alberta[8] and in 1933 in British Columbia.[9] Although some academic articles currently offer rough estimates of the numbers of sterilizations[10][11] the review of archival documents that would produce more specific numbers is incomplete and ongoing.[12][13] In February 2013, research by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission revealed that at least 3,000 students had died, mostly from disease.[1] In 2011, reflecting on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's research, Justice Murray Sinclair told the Toronto Star: "Missing children ? that is the big surprise for me, [...] That such large numbers of children died at the schools. That the information of their deaths was not communicated back to their families."[14] In a legal report, the Canadian Bar Association concludes that "Student deaths were not uncommon".[15] See Mortality rates below for more information. The system was designed as an immersion program: in many schools, children were prohibited from (and sometimes punished for) speaking their own languages or practicing their own faiths. In the 20th century, former students of the schools have claimed that officials and teachers had practiced cultural genocide and ethnocide. Because of the relatively isolated nature of the schools, there was an elevated rate of physical and sexual abuse. Corporal punishment was often justified by a belief that it was the only way to "save souls", "civilize" the savage, or punish runaways who, if they became injured or died in their efforts to return home, would leave the school legally responsible for whatever befell them. Overcrowding, poor sanitation, inadequate heating, and a lack of medical care led to high rates of influenza and tuberculosis; in one school, death rates reached 69%.[16] Federal policy tying funding to enrollment numbers may have made things worse, as it led to sick children being enrolled in order to boost numbers, thus introducing and spreading disease. Details of the mistreatment of students had been published numerous times throughout the 20th century.

Other examples of mans kindness toward his fellow man:

Here a whole list -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history

Most nationalistic posters here may find their "great country" on the list.

How the Neanderthal inhabitants of Europe succumbed to the Homo sapiens settlers 30,000 years ago:

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"One of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert." http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...iences-journal

Benjamin Franklin wrote, 'Don't throw stones at your neighbors', if your own windows are glass.'

For the record, my family lives now in the United States and some in Canada, but all immigrated from Europe and Russia after the genocidal actions of the settlers of the United States and Canada. No mia culpa -- most nations have their dark moments.

So, how did any of us stop the recent slaughters in Cambodia or Rwanda?

Piss and moan about it mudslinging 30 or 20 years later on Internet boards?