Canada confronts its dark history of abuse in residential schools Read more“The wrong here is that nobody knew it was happening. At times, researchers would carry out what Merchant described as trials aimed at depriving the children of nutrients that researchers suspected were beneficial. “So what they did on a systemic basis … they would identify a group of indigenous children in schools where they were being compulsorily held and they would not give them the same treatment,” said Merchant. In research published in 2013, he documented more than a decade of nutritional experiments on indigenous peoples. In a statement to the Guardian, a spokesperson for Canada’s indigenous and northern affairs department described news of the allegations as “very troubling”.

Source: The Guardian May 11, 2018 07:01 UTC