In light of the 2021 discoveries, the United Nations Human Rights Office and independent UN human rights experts called on Canada and the Holy See to thoroughly investigate the discoveries of the unmarked graves in a probe.[45][46] Similar sentiments were echoed by the governments of China, Russia, Belarus, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Venezuela, who called on the UN "for a thorough and impartial investigation into all cases where crimes were committed against Indigenous people, especially the children",[47] to which numerous writers has noted that these governments are engaging in anti-Canadian whataboutism in an attempt to deflect human rights criticisms of their own modern-day authoritarian governments.[48][49][50]