In the Canadian city of Winnipeg Aborigines dropped the statues of the British Queen of Victoria and Elizabeth II, established before the building of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba. The protest action took place on the day of Canada, when thousands of people went to the streets of the city to honor the memory of the victims and survivors in boarding schools, the CBC channel reports.
Many participants in the rally were in orange shirts – in memory of the children of indigenous peoples sent to boarding schools. They poured monuments of paint, and then piled them to asphalt with the help of rope. The statue of Queen Victoria was covered by the Canadian flag, on which the black marker was written “We were children”, and the pedestal was covered with fingerprints made by red paint.
Currently, the police detained one man by applying electrosker to it. Arrest circumstances are not specified.
Earlier on the territory of the former Catholic boarding school for Aboriginal in Canada, mass burials of children were found.
boarding schools in Canada were created with the aim of violent assimilation of the youth of indigenous peoples. They were governed by the government and religious organizations. For several decades, approximately 150 thousand Aboriginal children passed through such institutions, about four thousand of them were died during a rehabilitation.