Grave findings another indictment of Canada's human rights championing

The Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada, announced on Thursday that at least 751 unmarked graves had been discovered on the grounds of the former Marieval Indian Residential School.

Chief Cadmus Delorme emphasized that the remains of what are believed to be both adults and children were not in a mass grave but in unmarked graves where the headstones had been removed by representatives of the Catholic Church.

According to the Archbishop of Regina, Don Bolen, a priest who was serving there entered into a conflict with the local First Nations chief in the 1960s and used a bulldozer to destroy the tombstones. But he said that the number was more than expected and "it points to the pain and suffering that were connected" with what he said was a moment in the past.