The American Indian Movement (AIM) is conducting its own investigation into five missing-women cases in Canada’s western province of Manitoba. The activist organization established a chapter in that province earlier this year and it is not satisfied with police work on the cases.
Murdered and disappeared aboriginal women are a controversial and emotional issue in Canada. The Native Women’s Association of Canada and the Assembly of First Nations estimate there are 600 unsolved cases and they have called for a national inquiry into the matter.
AIM announced it has set up a task force looking into the high-profile disappearances of five indigenous women. AIM member Morris St. Croix said he met with Shawn Lamb, a man charged with three murders and awaiting trial.
“When I went in there, what he tried to do is try to plead his innocence to me, and I just didn’t buy it,” St. Croix said of Lamb.
Winnipeg police would not comment on AIM’s probe, except to say anyone with tips regarding a homicide should contact police investigators who are trained to handle such matters.
However, St. Croix said the police are not doing enough in their investigation.
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