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Report of the The national inquiry into missin....

.......the inquiry's commissioners argue, that through its actions and omissions, Canada has been -- and continues to be -- complicit in a "genocide" against Indigenous women and girls.

The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women, was unequivocal in its assessment: "This is genocide." Chief commissioner Marion Buller was greeted by cheers when she spoke these words Monday,today, for the release of the inquiry's long-anticipated report. Her declaration echoed the inquiry's full-throated conclusion that systemic violence against Indigenous women and girls amounts to a "Canadian genocide" in breach of the country's obligations under international law......"

Buller, a former B.C. judge, goes on to defend her and fellow commissioners' "harsh words," as necessary to address "hard truths" like genocide.The report points to examples of harms suffered by Indigenous women, LGBTQ and two-spirited people, at the hands of Canadian authorities, including the failure to protect them from exploitation, trafficking and killers; deaths in police custody; physical, sexual, and mental abuse in state institutions; the removal of children; forced relocations; the lack of funding for social services and coerced sterilizations. Link https://ca.news.yahoo.com/explained-why-mmiwg-commission-invoked-223343418.html -

The final report includes more than 200 "calls for justice." Link https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mmiwg-inquirys-farthest-reaching-recommendations-160903554.html

The tragedy, Buller said, is a direct result of a "persistent and deliberate pattern of systemic racial and gendered human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses, perpetuated historically and maintained today, by the Canadian state."

The term has instantly become a flashpoint, the subject of arguments over whether it denotes intentionality in the hundreds of killings and disappearances, the inquiry examined, whether it's fair, if it does, whether the label matters. Link https://ca.news.yahoo.com/massive-report-call-police-better-080004404.html -

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police revealed in 2014, that 1,017 aboriginal women had been murdered, between 1980 and 2012. The inquiry, which was beset by delays and staff resignations, opened painful wounds, as it heard testimony from 468 family members of missing or murdered women. Link https://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadian-inquiry-calls-deaths-indigenous-143957777.html - -

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