Forrest River massacre
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forrest-river-massacre-188-13989065
title:
Forrest River massacre
text:
The Forrest River massacre was a massacre of Indigenous Australian people by a group of law enforcement personnel and civilians in June 1926, in the wake of the killing of a pastoralist in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. An initial police inquiry concluded that sixteen Aboriginal people were killed and their remains burnt. Subsequently, a Royal Commission was organised in 1927 to further investigate the matter. This Commission found that eleven Aboriginal people were murdered and burn
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Massacre in Western Australia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_River_massacre
date created:
2007-08-31T00:51:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T22:01:10Z
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