ICTMN: Nearly 1,200 Missing, Murdered Aboriginal Women in Canada: RCMP

[Algernon Moncrieff]

The official tally of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada has hit nearly 1,200—and it’s not Native groups giving this number, it’s the country’s own police force.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on Thursday May 1 confirmed to reporters that its own data search had yielded 1,186 cases of indigenous women—1,026 who had been murdered and 160 of whom are missing—over the past 30 years. This dwarfed the previous high number of 824 determined by a researcher in Ottawa earlier this year, as the Winnipeg Free Press reported in January. Even that number was higher than figures compiled by the Native Women’s Association of Canada, which had documented 582 cases.

The latest revelation came after the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) learned on April 30 that “more than 1,000” women had been documented as missing or murdered. The RCMP would “not confirm or deny” that number, APTN reported.

On May 1, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulsen revealed the exact number to reporters after testifying before a Parliamentary committee, APTN said. The RCMP will release the full data within a month, Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney told the committee, according to APTN.

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[leftyladyfrommo]

1. Wow! That's really awful.

There was another Canadian case not all that long ago where a pig farmer kidnapped and killed a whole bunch of prostitutes. And no one in law enforcement would pay attention. It was a mother of one of the women who finally figured it out.

You always think the Mounties are supermen. And they seem to be no better than any other police force in a big city.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

2. Based on other articles I've read, i susmect many of these 1,200 were trafficked

It is awful, and it's been underreported on both sides of the border.