The remains of 751 children were found in the yard of a church boarding school in Canada

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Indigenous people in Canada say they have found hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former church boarding school in Saskatchewan.

The Sovereign Indigenous Federation of the First Nations (FSIN) in the Coveses region said the discovery of the graves was "the most significant in Canada to date."

The Coveses community is one of several so-called "First Nations," as Canada's indigenous people are called, descendants of the Inuit and the Meris.

Cadmus Delorm, head of the indigenous community in Coveses, said the remains of 751 children had been found in unmarked graves in the backyard of a boarding school in the Saskatchewan region.

"This is not a mass grave, these are unmarked graves," Delorm said, according to the Anatolia news agency.

According to official Canadian data, the boarding school operated from 1899 to 1997 in the Coveses region, about 140 miles [XNUMX km] east of the provincial capital, Regina.

The new graves were discovered by surface radar scanners, which are being investigated in 139 schools across the country, after the remains of 215 children, some as young as three, were found at the site of a former indigenous school in late May. children in Camlows, Canada

The national leader of the Canadian Assembly of First Nations, Perry Bellegard, said the news of the discovery of hundreds of unnamed tombs was tragic, but not at all surprising. He urged Canadians to be with them in these extremely difficult and emotional times.

The schools were run mainly by Christian churches on behalf of the state government, from the 1840s to the 90s.

Most of these children, forcibly taken from their families and placed in church boarding schools (estimated to be over 150.000 local children) were exposed to physical, sexual and psychological violence.

The Canadian federal government in 2008 formally apologized to the victims for what happened in the church boarding school, where thousands of children died of starvation, cold and medical experiments.

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