The Mohawk Mothers, also known as the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera, say they will be filing an interlocutory motion with Quebec’s Superior Court in the coming weeks, the latest move in a years-long court battle concerning excavation work at the sites of the former Royal Victoria Hospital and the Allan Memorial Institute.
The Mothers and their supporters gathered on Tuesday morning, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, addressing the media before Montreal’s Every Child Matters march.
A group of more than 50 people attended the event, wearing orange and occupying the grass in front of the Allan Memorial Institute, where the illegal psychiatric experiments were undertaken on human subjects in the 1950s and 1960s.
Those experiments include a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) mind control project known as MK-Ultra, and at least one survivor of the facility, Lana Ponting, has given sworn affidavits in court testifying that she believes Indigenous victims were killed and buried at the site.
That site and the neighbouring site of the former Royal Victoria Hospital are part of the New Vic Project, led by McGill University and the Societe quebecoise des infrastructures (SQI). The project, which was recently renamed “The Sustainability Park” will serve as a teaching and learning site for multi-disciplinary researchers.
The Mothers have long claimed that both the Allan Memorial Institute site and the Royal Victoria Hospital site could include the unmarked graves of Indigenous people, a claim that they say is backed up by findings from an S4 Subterra Grey Probe, a type of soil analysis designed to detect potential burials, as well as alerts from human remains detection dogs. (more...)
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