To the Editor:
Last week the media reported on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) gathering at the Forks in Winnipeg.
One issue that remains unresolved is the disappearance of little Indian children from those church run residential schools.
It was a criminal offence for the Indian parent not to bring their children to the residential school for incarceration. Once incarcerated the children were under 24 hours a day care of the mainline Christian churches.
The media are now reporting thousands of those school children did in fact perish in obscurity. How is it possible little children in the care of Christian churches could die in obscurity away from family?
The children were then buried secretly in unmarked graves. Parents never knew what became of their children. Is it a crime to dispose of bodies in secret? The churches claim they have nothing to hide, but the truth is they had a whole lot of little bodies to hide.
Where are the records that the thousands of missing children were ever reported to the police? There should also be church records that record which children came to school and which children never returned home.
It seems to this writer, we have a clear cut case of genocide practiced on innocent children. Little wonder chief Peter Yellow Quill of Long Plains Anishinabe Nation stood outside the TRC hearings holding his sign "All the children need a proper burial: Stop the TRC coverup"
For sure, the churches need to explain their actions in a court of law, or will the cover-up continue?
Henry Neufeld,
Waldeck, SK.
