By Ghazal Azizi Kashi, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Investigative Journalism Foundation On the fifth anniversary of the harrowing discovery of potential unmarked graves in Kamloops, B.C., experts at a survivor-led organization say finding the truth isn’t as simple as digging up bodies. Through ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation discovered 215 anomalies at the site of Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2021. The news sparked a wave of investigations looking into missing children and unmarked burials. Archeologist Scott Hamilton of Survivors’ Secretariat, an Ontario-based organization documenting residential school experiences, says a simplistic frenzy for geophysical technologies also caught on like wildfire. “Just about every other search team bought into the notion that gee-whiz science was going to solve the problem. All you do is roll these…
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