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Every year in November, people in the canadian town of Pas, Manitoba, always think of a name – Helen.
Helen Betty Osborne Monument
Helen, An Aboriginal Girl of Canada. One night 50 years ago, the 19-year-old girl was violated and brutally murdered. Although the attackers were locked down as early as 1972, it was a full 16 years before justice came due to flaws in the police investigation.
Over the past 50 years, the number of Aboriginal female victims in Canada has been increasing at an extraordinary rate: Tina Fontaine, Renell Harper, Jennifer Katchway, Samantha Fidler, Shirley May...
Data show that Indigenous Canadian women are 12 times more likely to disappear or be murdered than other groups and 16 times more likely than white women!
Shocking crimes have exposed the threats, injustices and indifference to Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
What's going on behind this?
Director system 丨 Qian Wei Wang Shanshan
Producer 丨 Geng Zhimin
Producer 丨Han Renwei
Editor-in-chief 丨 Peng Yuqi
Choreographer 丨Yao Yiting
Clip 丨 Jin Zhao Tu Xueya
Vision 丨Zhao Shuai Huang Zijun Gao Lingxiao
Co-ordinator 丨 Yang Bo
Translation 丨 Xu Fei
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