Police are investigating abuse claims at a former school that sought to assimilate indigenous children.
Canadian police say they have spent over a decade investigating abuse allegations at a former residential school for indigenous children.
For years, activists and survivors have alleged systematic abuse at the school, which closed in 1970.The Manitoba branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police made the rare comment about the ongoing investigation after an inquiry from a local media outlet. Chief Derrick Henderson of the Sagkeeng First Nation - the community most affected by the investigation - said that privacy violations "will not only cause further trauma to everyone involved, but also potentially compromise this highly sensitive investigation".
More than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were taken from their families and placed in residential schools between 1874 and 1996.
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