Thousands of people gathered in communities in British Columbia on Friday to call for justice and remember the lost dear beings during the annual women’s march.
This is the 34th year that families, friends and activists spent on February 14, walking in honor of Missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girlsBut many say that little has changed.
“I worked 35 years here. I had a daughter who was stabbed several times in the stomach, the guy bit his ear, gave him a hair fracture and she was on support for life. The guy was not charged, “said Carol Martin, one of the organizers of the Vancouver event.
“I think the justice system must really see how they treat the victims and the people who damage, kill or mutilate our women.”
Large crowds walked in the streets of downtown Vancouver, a district where far too many people have disappeared.
The walk stopped several times to mark the last known locations of women who had disappeared.
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A simultaneous march has made its way in the streets of Surrey, where the message was the same.
“We are here today to honor our sisters who have disappeared, and also for everyone – my son was murdered in Edmonton in 2009, there is still no justice for him. I walk for him today, ”said Deana McDonald.
“There is no justice because you know that we are still missing. And we are targeted.
Hundreds have also gathered to Prince George, the notorious notorious notorus of British Columbia in British Columbia in British Columbia.
The RCMP recognizes at least 18 people who have disappeared or have been murdered along motorway 16, more than half of them natives, but criticisms think that the number is much higher.
“The action is what is necessary,” said Julie Daum with the family services of the Sekani carrier.
“We need people not just careful, but go by measures. And remember that love is not only a name, it is a verb.
In 2019, a national survey of the gashed and murdered indigenous women and girls concluded that the tragedy came from a “persistent and deliberate scheme of racial and indigenous and indigenous racial and indigenous racial and indigenous racial violations and abuses, have been perpetuated historically and maintained today by the Canadian state. “
The author of the report, the former judge of British Columbia Marion Buller, used the word “genocide” to describe violence against native women and girls, and made more than 200 calls for justice aimed at several government levels.
From last summer, according to a review by the First Nations Assembly, only two of these calls for justice were fully implemented.
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