People gathering to honour victims and survivors of Canada's residential school system brought down a Queen Victoria statue in Winnipeg, Canada yesterday, as the country marked a muted Canada Day.
Video obtained by Reuters shows a crowd in orange chanting "no pride in genocide" as the statue fell outside the provincial legislature.
Multiple cities had scrapped celebrations after the discovery of almost 1,000 unmarked graves at former residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan that were mainly run by the Catholic Church and funded by the government.
The residential schools forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, in what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called "cultural genocide".
People gathering to honour victims and survivors of Canada's residential school system brought down a Queen Victoria statue in Winnipeg, Canada yesterday, as the country marked a muted Canada Day https://t.co/q2a3Pqepht pic.twitter.com/rZxHmqfKk5
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