The fear was probably that it was an aboriginal graveyard, much like the mythical residential school graveyards in Canada.
Not a single body was ever found in the residential schools, it should be noted. Some researcher just wanted wanted more grant money, so she made it up out of whole cloth.
Yes, not a single body has been found, but officially it’s still recognized as a genocide, and you may be able to be prosecuted, if you disagree.
Yes, not a single body has been found, but officially it’s still recognized as a genocide, and you may be able to be prosecuted, if you disagree.
It’s fun to read sometimes. The cemetery was well known, had been operated publicly from the 1800s to 1934. No surprise except it was supposed to have been exhumated and the bones relocated back in the 1960s. Bureaucratic screw-up. No indigenous activists needed.