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June 3, 2019

Report: Disappearance and Murder of 1000s of Indigenous Women a "Canadian Genocide"
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In Canada, a national inquiry found that the disappearance and murder of
thousands of indigenous women and girls over decades amounts to a
"Canadian genocide." The report, which was obtained by CBC News ahead of
its official release today, says that "We do know that thousands of
Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA (two-spirit, lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual) have
been lost to the Canadian genocide to date" and are the result of "state
actions and inactions rooted in colonialism and colonial ideologies."


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