Evidence Of Historic Human Remains at Former Hospital Site

 

Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistensera announce that multiple remote-sensing techniques have identified evidence of human remains at the site where unethical medical experimentation, abuse and neglect was conducted during the infamous MK-Ultra project and throughout the hospital’s history

TIOHTIÁ:KE (MONTRÉAL, QC) – The Kanienʼkehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) gathered with dozens of supporters near the former Royal Victoria Hospital site to hold a vigil for the victims of unethical medical experimentation and a press conference to share new scientific findings from several investigations led by independent experts.

Three techniques have been used to detect historic human remains and identify probable burial sites at the former Royal Victoria Hospital: ground-penetrating radar, historic human remains detection dogs, and, most recently, the S4 Subterra Grey probe, which is designed to detect burials by analysing soil contents and compactness. To date, the probe has been used in one location near the Allan Memorial Institute. The Kahnistensera announced that the results of all three remote sensing methods support the presence of human remains at this location.

“In one area near the Allan Memorial Institute, investigations using three separate remote-sensing technologies have finally been completed,” said Kahentinetha, one of the Mohawk Mothers. “We have received a report combining these results that states, quote, ‘The combination of three separate lines of evidence supports the presence of human remains’ near the Allan Memorial Institute.”

In addition to being on unceded traditional Kanien'kehá:ka territory containing important precolonial burials and other sites, the grounds of the old Royal Victoria Hospital are suspected to contain the unmarked burials of Indigenous children and other victims of psychiatric experiments conducted as part of the CIA's Project MK-ULTRA, a project that developed “mind control” and torture techniques. Burials on-site may also be the result of the neglect and mistreatment endured by those incarcerated in medical and pedagogical institutions.  (more...)

Evidence Of Historic Human Remains at Former Hospital Site