You’re of course right to be boggled by that.
Imagine a situation where it’s discovered that hundreds (thousands?) of secret childrens graves have been hidden in a handful of clusters around the country, just waiting to be unearthed. The organizations that oversaw this secret disposal of bodies generally still exist, and many of them were still active in living memory, meaning some of those INVOLVED in these mass murders and burials are still alive.
And there’s absolutely ZERO police involvement. None. No investigation. No forensic teams, no detectives, not even serious excavation. And this isn’t caused by conspiracy to hide the evidence, the entire nation’s populace is made aware and extremely interested. And it’s not caused by doubt. Every public and private entity and leave of government is organized in total belief that these mass secret graves of murdered children really DO exist and that we know exactly where they are and who is responsible.
Of course we know now that some of these sites absolutely have bodies, they’re the known but no longer maintained graveyards connected to local churches, which contain the bodies of people from oftentimes generations of that former community. And some of them absolutely don’t, as they’re remnants of apple orchards and the like. Some of them very well might have graves of children who died at these schools.
What none of them have are hidden hordes of hundreds of murdered children.
At one point it was claimed that a part of a human jawbone had been found at one site, but the last I’d heard is that this claim couldn’t be corroborated and there was no knowledge of it’s whereabouts and no contact with the claimant.
Now of course to try and start the discussion on how we nationally lost our minds and bought into this hoax (intentionally contrived and spread or organically created and distributed) we end up with this extremely odd mix of attack (“genocide denier!”), defence (“why do you need evidence and doubt the word of Indigenous Community Knowledge?”) and historical gibberish (“Residential schools were bad and thus secret organized mass child murder happened”), and that’s as far as any discussion can get.