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Canada: 169 potential graves found at former residential school

Several Indigenous communities across Canada have uncovered unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential schools since last May, fuelling calls for accountability and justice [File: Geoff Robins/AFP]

Warning: The story below contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting. Canada’s Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419.

Another First Nation community in Canada has uncovered potential graves at a former “residential school”, as the country continues to grapple with the scale of the “horror” that occurred at the assimilation institutions that Indigenous children were forced to attend for decades.

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