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In legal terms, the 1948 Genocide Convention used the same definition. They're binding principles today, ones America, Canada, Israel, and other nations violate with impunity.
Summarized Evidence of Canadian Residential Schools Genocide
(1) It reveals planned criminal conspiracy by Canada's government and Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, and United Church of Canada to "exterminate indigenous populations, primarily children, and steal their lands, under the guise of religion and education...."
(2) Beginning in 1889, with establishment of the Department of Indian Affairs, it was codified, then agreed to by all parties in November 1910. They became financially and legally responsible for running schools that literally became torture/exploitive death camps.
(3) From 1889 - 1996, they were responsible for killing or disappearing 50,000 - 100,000 indigenous children.
(4) Their average mortality ranged from 30% - 65%, at least until 1950.
(5) Death was mainly caused by "deliberately housing healthy native children alongside those infected with tuberculosis," then not treating them.
(6) Local and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), coroners, doctors, social workers, and state-funded aboriginal chiefs were complicit in their deaths, disposal of their bodies, and various other crimes.
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