Hashtag #AMINEXT is currently being used to draw urgent attention to the plight of indigenous females in Canada who have been systematically targeted there for a quiet little genocide, over the past few decades.
Since the early 1980s almost 1300 of the country’s aboriginal women and girls have vanished without a trace or been found murdered, with few if any of their cases covered by mainstream news sources, let alone solved.
In fact, most of these troubling disappearances and deaths aren’t even being investigated by Canadian authorities, say activists attempting to finally shed light on the mass slayings.
So they’re turning the matter over to social media now, in hopes of forcing their apathetic government to launch a formal inquiry.
#AmINext ?
Canada’s indigenous females represent a mere 4-percent of the country's entire population, yet they comprise approximately 12-percent of those deemed officially missing, and close to 20-percent of all female homicide victims.
Those shocking statistics have, understandably, caused this marginalized segment of Canadians to have some very grave concerns for their status and safety.
“Am I next?” is what most can’t help but wonder today, no matter who or where they may be, or what activity they’re engaged in.
And, despite a national campaign for justice, and a Prime Minister’s callous response that there’s no such “sociological phenomenon,” the number of victims among them is steadily increasing.
#MMIW
In classic victim-blaming style, missing murdered indigenous women from all walks of life are often accused by Canada of bringing about their own victimization, “asking for it” simply by existing.
Fact is, though, the nation itself socially stigmatizes them, with vile racial slurs being the most commonly perpetrated crime against these native-born citizens.
Slandered and slain without consequence
Numbers don’t lie -- the abduction and killing en masse of Canada’s most oppressed females has reached epic proportions, and a government in denial is only fueling the crime wave.
In an era of escalating brutality against women and girls all across the globe, no first-world nation the likes of Canada has a right to call itself civilized, while at the same time refusing to put an end to such violence on their own soil.
Because ensuring that society’s most vulnerable members are always safe in their persons and in their homes is the greatest measure of civility.
