Genocide of Indigenous Australians

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Many scholars have argued that the British colonisation of Australia and subsequent actions of various Australian governments and individuals involved acts of genocide against Indigenous Australians. They have used numerous definitions of genocide, including the intentional destruction of Indigenous groups as defined in the 1948 United Nations genocide convention, and broader definitions involving cultural genocide, ethnocide and genocidal massacres. They have frequently described the near-extermination of Aboriginal Tasmanians, mass killings during the frontier wars, forced removals of Indigenous children from their families (now known as the Stolen Generations) and policies of forced assimilation as genocidal. When Britain established its first Australian colony in 1788, the Aboriginal population is estimated to have been more than two million people, comprising about 600 tribes or nations and 250 languages with various dialects. By 1901 the Aboriginal population had fallen to just over...

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