Canadian police reveal decade-long Manitoba residential school inquiry

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Canadian police reveal decade-long Manitoba residential school inquiry

27 July 2021

Canadian police say they have spent over a decade investigating abuse allegations at a former residential school for indigenous children.

The government-funded Fort Alexander school in Manitoba was one of dozens of such institutions founded to forcibly assimilate indigenous children.

For years, activists and survivors have alleged systematic abuse at the school, which closed in 1970.

Police on Tuesday revealed that they had launched a criminal probe in 2011.

The Manitoba branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) made the rare comment about the ongoing investigation after an inquiry from a local media outlet.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57977938

[applegrove]

1. Phil Fontaine talked it 40 years ago. He was a victim.

And he was powerful. An yet they didn't investigate it till 2011

Phil Fontaine was the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations for 3 terms that ended in 2009.