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Canada’s genocide: The case of the Ahiarmiut

OPINION: The forced relocation of a group of Inuit in Canada's Arctic constitutes genocide.

By Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Wilfrid Laurier University December 28, 2018
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As a human rights scholar, I have long argued that Canada committed cultural genocide against Indigenous peoples. But recently, I’ve come to conclude, in the case of the Ahiarmiut, that it’s not cultural genocide — it’s actual physical genocide.

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