‘No reconciliation without truth’: Iran slams Canada over Indigenous children on Truth Day
Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says Canada’s so-called National Day for Truth and Reconciliation cannot replace answers over children taken from their families, abused and buried far from home.
In a post published on X on Thursday, Marking Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Baghaei said: “Questions still haunt the conscience of the world when it comes to the Canada's Indigenous children.”
Canada’s Indigenous children “were taken from their families, stripped of their names, languages, cultures, and identities, and subjected to a system of forced assimilation,” he added.
That question still haunts the conscience of the world when it comes to the Canada's Indigenous children who were taken from their families, stripped of their names, languages, cultures, and identities, and subjected to a system of forced assimilation. Many suffered abuse and…
— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) October 2, 2026
September 30 was Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - apparently to honor residential school survivors and their families, and to remember the innocent Indigenous children who never came home. But reconciliation cannot be reduced to a commemorative day or political rhetoric, Baghaei noted.
“When serious questions remain unanswered and the history of residential schools is contested or obscured, reconciliation remains incomplete,” he wrote, highlighting that “the suffering of Indigenous children is not a culture war” but “a matter of historical truth and accountability.”
Baghaei further said questions surrounding unmarked graves “deserve evidence, transparency, and an honest examination of the historical record, not denial, distortion, or silence,” concluding: “No reconciliation without truth. No justice without accountability.”
The residential school system forcibly separated more than 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children from their families over more than a century.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard testimony from more than 6,600 survivors and witnesses before concluding in 2015 that the system formed part of a state-supported policy of cultural genocide.
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation said in September 2025 that it had verified 1,143 additional names of children who died as a result of the residential school system, while updating information on more than 1,000 other students after examining historical records and survivor and family testimony.
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