Canada Calls Violence Against Indigenous Women ‘Genocide’ - The Daily Beast

Canada Calls Violence Against Indigenous Women ‘Genocide’ The Daily Beast

Chris Wattie/Reuters The deaths of over 1,000 aboriginal women and girls in Canada in recent decades was a national genocide, according to a government report issued Monday. Reuters reports that the Canadian government launched a probe into the deaths in 2016, and the resulting report blamed the violence against the group on “long-standing discrimination against indigenous people and Canada’s failure to protect them.” Police revealed in 2014 that 1,017 aboriginal women were murdered between 1980 and 2012, which the report concluded was the result of “colonialism” and “discrimination” agains...