Unmarked graves on school grounds force Canada to confront disturbing past

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Roberta Hill is a survivor of one of Canada's residential schools for Indigenous children. Some never returned home.

Roberta Hill has been talking about the brutality of Canada's residential school system for years, but it took the discovery of unmarked graves at the site of a former school in British Colombia for people to really start listening.

"That was one of the threats. If you don't behave as a kid, you'll get sent to the Mush Hole," Roberta Hill said. "[He] took me by the hand and took me over to his office and sat me on his lap, and that's where the sexual abuse started," Ms Hill said of the abuse she said she suffered.Some children never returned home

 

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And her reflection in the washing machine has what significance?

British Columbia not British Colombia

Didn't a student write this research and use a ground disturbance detector to claim there were graves. Plus they have never tested any of the areas to see if there are actually any skeletons. Unless I am wrong.

Yeah, not really as it was all a terrible hoax that only a few simpletons fell for. Which is exactly how the ABC ended up with this story.

This happened in Australia too.

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