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Catholic church fires are on the rise in western Canada.
After two places of worship were set on fire on June 21 on the territories of a Native American reserve near the city of Penticton, British Columbia, two other buildings burned on Saturday on another reserve in the province.
If the regional spokesperson for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Sergeant Jason Bayda, refused to
"advance on the motive"
of these disasters, it is difficult not to see a link with the recent discovery of Amerindian burials near Catholic schools.
On the borders of the Rockies and the Canadian west, Kamloops, 90,000 souls, hosted from 1890 to 1969 an aboriginal boarding school, a school for little Amerindians.
The remains of 215 of them were discovered at the end of May near this establishment.
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In front of Kamloops' Native American School, which is now closed, a plaque recalls:
“In the 1920s, Native children between the ages of 4 and 15 were uprooted.
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