HSIE Myall Creek Massacre 26/03/2020
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- Subsequent to the discovery of Aboriginals, the British Colonial Office instructed the British to treat the Aboriginal community with goodwill and kindness.
- Treat the Aboriginal people with goodwill and kindness!
- However, despite the command, the British and Aboriginals frequently conflicted, competing for land and resources, invariably resulting in frontier violence.
- This is OUR land!
- WE were here FIRST!
- Succeeding an unsuccessful pursuit of Aboriginal people, twelve European settlers discovered a group of Wirrayaraay positioned at Myall Creek station, in which the Europeans "rounded-up" and tied together the Aboriginal community.
- 10 JUNE 1838
- The twelve Europeans settlers then proceeded to lead the Aboriginals into a remote location where they violently massacred the thirty Wirrayarray individuals.
- On the 12th of June 1838, two days following the culling, the twelve Europeans returned to the scene of the crime to burn their victim's remains.
- Eleven of the twelve settlers invovled in the massacre were arrested on accounts of murder; however, they were found not guilty. Seven of the men were then re-arrested and tried again, in which they were found guilty and sentenced to death.
- 18 DECEMBER 1838
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