Missing Aboriginal Women: Canada’s Secret Shame
Submitted on October 3, 2011
By MARTIN LUKACS - Counterpunch
Killed in their homes and in the streets, on and off reservations, by acquaintances and by strangers, aboriginal women are the victims of an unmistakable epidemic of violence. They are five times more likely to die violently than their non-aboriginal counterparts. In northern [British Columbia], so many have disappeared on notorious highway 16 that it has been given a chilling name: the Highway of Tears.
