A Quebec Superior Court judge has granted an emergency injunction to stop excavation work on Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital site as requested by a group of Mohawk elders.
The group, called the Kanien’kehá:ka kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers), believes there may be unmarked graves of Indigenous people, including children, on or near the site following CIA-funded brainwashing experiments in the 1950s and 1960s.
They say the site may also house archeological remains from the first pre-colonial Iroquois village.
The Mohawk Mothers filed a civil suit in March demanding the suspension of McGill University’s redevelopment plans for part of the former hospital.
After two days of hearings this week, a judge issued an oral decision Thursday afternoon
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