A six-year investigation into a policy of forcibly separating Aboriginal children from their parents has found Canada guilty of "cultural genocide".
More than 150,000 children were sent to so-called residential schools in an attempt to assimilate them into mainstream Canada.
The system has been defunct for years, but victims still carry emotional scars.
Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher reports from Ottawa.
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