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>The shock isn't so much at the number Using the term "mass graves" or "hundreds of unmarked" is selling the quantity, with a strong implication that the death
by beerandt 5y ago
>The shock isn't so much at the number
Using the term "mass graves" or "hundreds of unmarked" is selling the quantity, with a strong implication that the deaths involved foul play.
And by foul play, I don't mean "caught a disease and died".
- alisonatwork 5y agoI was responding to the assertion of the GP that people who are shocked "didn't do the math", not the appropriateness of the term "mass graves". There seems to be a bit of an elitist bent to several comments here, implying that anyone who is responding to these findings emotionally must either be thoroughly ignorant or incapable of considering historical child mortality rates. Surely it's reasonable for people to be "shocked" to find that children in these schools died at a far higher rate than their non-indigenous peers, and were buried on-site, presumably far from their homes, in graves that up until recently their relatives weren't even sure where they were? What is wrong with allowing people to have that emotion?