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Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Despite the pain of not searching, $187 million cost would do a lot for living indigenous women

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Jul 18, 2023, 02:49 PM

Jul 2023

It is a terrible balance to have to weigh, but I think it would be a waste to spend $187 million to search the landfill. Even if the two women were white, nobody would spend even $10 million searching a landfill. And there is no guarantee the two women are there. If they are there, there is no guarantee a search would find them.

It's sad. Period. But there are other better ways of reconciliation and better ways spend large sums of money to help indigenous people advance and gain the respect they deserve.

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Despite the pain of not searching, $187 million cost would do a lot for living indigenous women Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2023 #1

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