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<td>Fw: Breaking News - Media Advisory - BC Olympics to Face
Disruption by Indian residential school survivors - government given
deadline to return bodies - please circulate</td>
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<td>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:02:52 +0000</td>
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<td>Chris McCormick <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cmccormick@aiai.on.ca"><cmccormick@aiai.on.ca></a></td>
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<dd>International Media Advisory<br>
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<dd>Tuesday January 5, 2010 1:00 am PST<br>
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<dd>British Columbia Olympics to Face Civil Disruptions by Survivors
of
Canadian Indian Residential schools - <br>
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<dd>Government Given Deadline for Return of Bodies<br>
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<dd>Vancouver - The group representing survivors of Indian
residential
schools on Canada's west coast announced today that it will hold civil
disobedience actions and disruptions during the February 2010 Olympics
near Vancouver if the Canadian government and mainline churches have
not
announced a timetable for the repatriation of the remains of the
thousands of children who died in these schools.<br>
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<dd>The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD), which held
high-profile protests and occupations of churches in Vancouver and
Toronto during 2007 and 2008 and compelled the Canadian government to
issue an apology for the residential schools in July, 2008, has given
Canada and the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada
until
February 15, 2010 to announce when and how they will return for a
proper
burial the remains of Indian children who died under their care.<br>
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<dd>As part of this deadline, the FRD has also demanded that the
government and churches make public the names of those responsible for
the deaths of these children, and indicate by what judicial mechanism
the
guilty or the responsible institutions will face trial.<br>
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<dd>Nearly half of the 150,000 children who attended Canadian Indian
residential schools died as a result of conditions in the schools.
(Globe
and Mail, April 24, 2007) In April, 2008, the FRD released to the media
and police a list of twenty eight mass graves near former Indian
residential schools where many of the children are alleged to be
buried.
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<dd>"We will halt church and government operations during the
Olympics if that's what it takes to get the bodies of our relatives
back" said Carol Martin, a Nishga native woman and FRD
spokesperson.<br>
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<dd>"The world has to know that our people are still dying from the
genocide Canada and the churches inflicted on us. We've waited long
enough for justice."<br>
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<dd>For more information contact the FRD at: <br>
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<dd>hiddenfromhistory@ yahoo.ca or 250-753-3345 (Canada)<br>
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<dd>And see the website:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/"
eudora="autourl">www.hiddenfromhistory.org<br>
</a></dd>
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