Flags have been ordered to half-staff in Canada after the remains of 215 children, some as young as 3, were found at Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school.
The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978, according to the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc.
After several days of pressure, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered that after the arrest of 215 Indigenous children, half-mast should be hoisted