U.S State department diplomat applauded the Globe and Mail for reporting five years after the purported discovery of “215 unmarked graves” that no bodies have been found to date.
A top U.S. official is criticizing the “mass unmarked graves” narrative that emerged from Kamloops five years ago, saying it contributed to a wave of church arsons that the Canadian government has yet to acknowledge.
More than five years after the Kamloops band announced that ground-penetrating radar at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School had “confirmed” the unmarked graves of 215 former students, The Globe and Mail published an editorial stating that no bodies have been found.
The editorial caught the attention of Sarah Rogers, the U.S. State Department’s Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, who praised the newspaper for “coming clean” about a media narrative she says contributed to a growing number of church arsons and acts of vandalism across Canada.
