Trudeau announces inquiry into missing, murdered native women

Ottawa (AFP) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced an inquiry into why 1,200 indigenous women were murdered or have gone missing over decades.

Their fate has been a festering wound in many of Canada's more than 600 native communities, with allegations of mishandled murder investigations or failures to look into missing persons cases.

The previous Conservative administration had long resisted calls for an inquiry, seeing the disproportionate number of deaths and disappearances as resulting from domestic violence.

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