Photo: Iqaluit rallies April 2 for murdered, missing Aboriginal women

Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril drew dozens of Iqaluit residents April 2 to a noon rally at the city’s Four Corners intersection to grieve the death of Cindy Gladue, a Cree woman who was brutally murdered in 2011, and show support for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women. The man who stood trial for her murder was acquitted March 18. “This is not just about an indigenous woman who was treated as a sub-human by a man that killed her, and by a justice system,” said Williamson Bathory. “I hope our member of parliament and our legislative assembly will use their voice to bring attention to this, because it could be any one of our women that suffer the same fate and don’t see justice,” said Arnaquq-Baril. Williamson Bathory read a statement from Gladue’s mother at the rally, which was one of several co-ordinated to take place the same day in several cities throughout the country. (PHOTO BY PETER VARGA)