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What does justice mean for Indigenous survivors of genocide in Canada?

The discovery of yet more graves of Indigenous children taken by the government for forcible assimilation has – at last – shocked the world

What does justice mean for Indigenous survivors of genocide in Canada?
Installation in Vancouver honouring the 215 Indigenous children whose unmarked graves were discovered in May | JSMimages / Alamy Stock Photo. All rights reserved
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Imagine if your child was ripped from your arms by police who were enforcing the laws of your oppressors; if the devil in the form of forced assimilation and colonisation, under the guise of church-run institutions, stole your children – and your flesh and blood were beaten, sexually violated, shamed and stripped of their identity; or if your child – or aunt, uncle, brother or sister – died from malnutrition, unsanitary living conditions or was murdered by their abusers.

Imagine it as your beating heart being ripped from your chest.