Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that this “painful memory” is the darkness and shame of the past.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau found the remains of an Aboriginal school in a heartbreaking discovery on Friday. The remains of 215 children were found, some less than 3 years old.

According to the Tk’emlúpste Secwépemc Nation, the children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, which closed in 1978.

Rosanne Casimir, head of Tk’emlúpste Secwépemc, said in a statement: “We know in the community that we can verify.” “At present, we have more questions than answers.”

Canadian BoardingThe organization forcibly separated indigenous children from their families constituted a “cultural genocide,” a six-year investigation of the now-extinct system discovered in 2015.

The report documents the terrible physical abuse, rape, malnutrition and other atrocities suffered by many of the 150,000 school children, who were usually run by Ottawa’s Christian church on behalf of Ottawa from the 1840s to the 1990s.

The investigation found that more than 4,100 children died while studying in a boarding school. The deaths of 215 children buried in the land that was once Canada’s largest boarding school are not considered to be included in the figure and appear to have not been recorded until they were discovered.

Trudeau wrote in a tweet that the news “makes me sad-it painfully recalls that dark and shameful chapter in our country’s history”.

The news I found at the former Kamloops boarding school broke my heart – it painfully recalls that dark and shameful chapter in our country’s history. I am considering everyone affected by this unpleasant news. We are here to serve you. https://t.co/ZUfDRyAfET

-Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) May 28, 2021

In 2008, the Canadian government formally apologized to the system.

The Tk’emlúpste Secwépemc Nation said it is in contact with the coroner and the family community where the child goes to school. They are expected to obtain preliminary findings in mid-June.

Terry Teegee, the head of the Aboriginal Peoples Region of British Columbia, said in a statement that the discovery of such a cemetery is “urgent work” and “alleviates the grief and loss of all the indigenous people in British Columbia.”