What should be surprising is that “genocide” was employed to explain why there are proportionately more murdered and missing Indigenous women in Canada compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. Rather than being an inter-group form of violence, the murder of Aboriginal females is largely confined to the Indigenous community. Between 1980 and 2012, of the 20,313 national homicides, five per cent of victims were Aboriginal women. Meanwhile, Indigenous men represent at least 70 per cent of murdered or missing Aboriginal persons. Don’t these murdered men deserve some consideration as well?

Source: National Post June 05, 2019 16:18 UTC