Tristin Hopper: Kamloops residential school ‘graves’ could have been septic pipes all along; Five years after the explosive announcement of 215 children’s graves, the only way to know what’s under the ground is to excavate.
Source: FancyNewMe
Tristin Hopper: Kamloops residential school ‘graves’ could have been septic pipes all along; Five years after the explosive announcement of 215 children’s graves, the only way to know what’s under the ground is to excavate.
Source: FancyNewMe
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“Go dig up your grandma who died of old age, we’re not digging up these murdered people to prove anything”
Yes I’ve heard this argument. We should “dig up our relatives” first before they’ll do any excavation. Is there not any First Nations people that went to school for archeology? Christ.
Several years ago I was part of a project to find buried oil tanks. We couldn’t find a GPR company that would take any liability for their scans. It was kind of like dealing with home inspectors. No real professional responsibility and a long list of disclaimers.
When you can’t trust the method to find big steel tanks underground, it’s not worth relying on for other important purposes.
This should have been done ages ago but no, it has had to drag through the court of public opinion so that there is no resolution for those who have reason to believe loved ones were disposed of callously and they are revictimized by racists who choose to discredit anything on the basis of their bias.
Actually digging and finding out would be a threat to the whole project.
It was never about the truth. It’s about pushing an imagined version of events that may or may not have happened that can be used to justify the perpetual gravy train and grift.
The *possibility* that they excavate and find no evidence is exactly why the excavation never happened. They’re afraid the truth might undermine the narrative.
Emperor’s new clothes.
The people who control the narrative dont want the truth to be know. They want the public to accept their version without question. If they are there let’s address it. If they are not there let’s address that as well.
Pipes and gravesites would have looked completely different under LiDAR. Give me a frickin’ break, National Post
Edit: I meant GPR not LiDAR
I feel like if they really thought any of these were real they would done the easiest thing possible to prove it by now.
But hey I’m no scientist.
The same people who criticized the government for jumping to conclusions are jumping to conclusions. Interesting.
“the suspected graves were all identified as lying at a depth of about 800 centimetres, roughly two-and-a-half feet.”
Who is doing these conversions?
Who knew?!
While it bears worth questioning, it seems to me that the why now is a concerted effort by American media to ignite the fuse on something while Alberta is doing its Referendum.
National post and subsidiaries wont stop spamming it right now, and I’m sure other agencies are picking up the story too.
100%, I believe its right to question wtf happened here.
100% I believe they’re not doing it in good faith, and are aiming to revive Trudeau era bullshit to fan flames of discontent.
Regardless of what is or isn’t in the ground in that particular location there are literal records of children dying in the “care” of these schools. It should not matter whether or not the graves are ever opened. May they rest in Peace.
I would like a comment from Justin Trudeau about this. After his comments and behavior threw every Canadian into an international spotlight on this.
Ottawa pledged $320 million towards the confirmation of mass graves, that money is dust in the wind and not a spade has broken ground.
I have never understood why a select few in the sites could not have been carefully excavated until the validity of the radar test results has been verified or discounted. Having said that, I can also understand why indigenous groups would not want to risk having the truth come out if there are few actual burials.
While official records are incomplete, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) has documented the deaths of over 4,000 children at residential schools. However, researchers and Indigenous leaders estimate the true death toll is much higher, ranging between 6,000 and 25,000 due to disease, neglect, and abuse.
How many is enough for you?
Man you wouldn’t know but nat po cared about the kids who were killed
This is an opinion piece.