標題: Dozens of groups protesting Missing Women Inquiry [打印本頁] 作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-10-11 06:45 標題: Dozens of groups protesting Missing Women Inquiry
Dozens of groups protesting Missing Women Inquiry
Boycotting over a lack of legal funding
News1130 Staff Oct 11, 2011 06:19:19 AM
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Imagine if you held an inquiry and nobody came. The Missing Women Inquiry starts today and dozens of groups are boycotting it, with two planning to hold a noisy protest outside.
They are just the latest to say the probe is a sham because the provincial government is covering the cost of lawyers for the police but refuse to provide legal funding for them.
Corinthia Kelly with the Women's Memorial March Committee will be outside, demanding the inquiry include more people from the Downtown Eastside.
"People in the community, the survivors, the support workers, the advocates, the people who have been there from the beginning, consulted with them about how to proceed in a way that would allow the truth to come out."
The group believes the process has been adversarial from the start, and want to get the point across that women are still going missing from the area.
"It's not just women that are sex workers and not just women that are addicted," Kelly says. "It's aboriginal women who are mothers, aboriginal girls that are just walking home from a friend's house - they're going missing. So it isn't just a matter of lifestyle."
The BC government ordered the commission last year after Robert Pickton's final appeals were exhausted. It will examine the role that both the Vancouver Police Department and RCMP played, and why neither was able to stop a serial killer or acknowledge the fact that one existed.
Pickton was arrested in 2002 and convicted of six counts of second-degree murder, but the remains of 33 women were found at his Port Coquitlam pig farm.
The victims families have been calling for public hearings since before Pickton was arrested in 2002 and eventually convicted of six murders.
By the end of the inquiry, Commissioner Wally Oppal is expected to release a report detailing why the judicial system failed and a list of recommended changes.作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-10-11 06:46
