This comes after activists lied that 200 indigenous children were buried under Catholic schools
By WILL POTTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Almost 100 Christian churches in Canada have been systematically targeted in apparent revenge attacks following a hoax about mass graves containing Native American children.
In 2021, a horrific story swept the internet as an indigenous group in Saskatchewan claimed to find 751 unmarked graves under the Marieval Indian Residential School, weeks after 215 children were supposedly discovered under another school in British Columbia.
The schools were run by Christian churches – largely Catholic – and sought to eliminate their students’ Indigenous culture so they could ‘assimilate’ into Canadian society.
However, excavations carried out last year failed to turn up any evidence of bodies, and most experts concluded that claims of mass graves were exaggerated.
At the same time the excavations failed for the past two years, at least 96 churches have been burned, vandalized and destroyed, seemingly in retaliation, with phrases smeared on the walls including: ‘Where are the children.’
An arson attack consumed the St Jean Baptiste Church in Morinville, Alberta in July 2021, one of at least 33 church fires to spring up in the wake of the ‘mass graves’ hoax
The root cause of the apparent hoax stems from the early 19th to 20th centuries, when tens of thousands of indigenous children were ripped from their families and placed at ‘residential’ boarding schools across Canada.
Many suffered horrendous abuse, were killed or disappeared, leading to searches in recent years that claimed to find shallow graves through the use of ground-penetrating radar.
The tech only found aberrations in the ground that were mistakenly believed to be shallow graves, that may also have been rocks and tree roots disturbing the soil.
Although not every ‘site’ has been excavated, no bodies were discovered at those that have, leading some to now feel outrage at the ‘mass graves’ may have been fueled more by social media hysteria than evidence.
As backlash to the initial claims reached fever pitch, furious protests erupted at many sites, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau telling indigenous people that ‘the hurt and trauma you feel is Canada’s responsibility to bear.’
Since then, almost 100 churches have been burned or vandalized, with Canadian law enforcement declaring just two of the 33 church fires to be accidents.
Over 60 other churches have been marked with vandalism, including rocks thrown through windows, burglaries, and graffiti reading ‘dig them up’ and ‘return them home’.
Although the attacks have stretched for hundreds of miles, one of the worst affected cities was Calgary, which saw 11 churches vandalized in a matter of hours on the night of June 30, 2021.