The colonization of Australia and Tasmania became a prime example of how the Anglo-Saxon race, exterminating the aborigines, conquered living space.
In 1803, a small party of settlers was sent to the island of Tasmania from Sydney under the command of John Bowen in order to prevent French claims to the island. They were faced with the task of developing agriculture and industry.
The aborigines met the colonists without hostility, but soon changed their attitude towards whites. For the sake of their own prosperity, British settlers took away land from the indigenous people, who were killed, raped and enslaved. Attempts by the aborigines in the early 1820s to provide resistance, called the "black war", were brutally suppressed by the colonial army:
The final extermination on a large scale could only be carried out with the help of justice and the armed forces … The soldiers of the fortieth regiment drove the natives between two boulders, shot all the men, and then pulled women and children out of rock crevasses to blow their brains out.
Tasmanians with spears in their hands were completely defenseless against Europeans armed with firearms, so very soon the "black war" turned into a real hunt for the British for the aborigines, which took place with the sanction of the British authorities.
In the testimonies of those events, there are descriptions of this cruel and bloody entertainment of the British: having invited neighbors with their families for a picnic and having dined, the gentlemen took guns, dogs, 2-3 servants from the exiles and went to the forest to look for the black ones. The hunt was considered successful if it was possible to shoot a woman or 1–2 men.
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American biogeographer Jared Diamond cites other facts of the bloody fun of the gallant and noble English:
One shepherd shot nineteen Tasmanians with a falconet loaded with nails. Four others ambushed the natives, killing thirty people, and throwing their bodies off the mountain now called Victory Hill.
In 1828, the governor of Tasmania banned the indigenous people from appearing in the part of the island where Europeans lived. Any aborigine who violated this prohibition was allowed to be killed on the spot.
In addition, the Europeans were engaged in "catching blacks" and selling them into slavery. Felix Maynard, a physician at a French whaling ship, described the raids on the natives:
So, the hunt for people began, and over time it became more and more brutal. In 1830, Tasmania was put under martial law, and a chain of armed men was lined up across the island, trying to drive the natives into a trap. The indigenous people managed to get through the cordon, but the will to live left the hearts of the savages, fear was stronger than despair …
The last indigenous people of Tasmania.
The French geographer and historian Elise Reclus wrote:
On December 28, the last of the natives, pursued like wild beasts, were herded to the tip of a lofty promontory, and the event was celebrated with triumph. The happy hunter Robinson received a 400-hectare estate and a significant amount of money as a reward from the government.
As a result, by 1833 about three hundred aborigines remained on the island out of five to six thousand who had lived there before the conquest of Tasmania by the British. Almost all of them were relocated to Flinders Island, where three quarters of them died within 10 years.
In 1876, Truganini, the last representative of the indigenous people of Tasmania, died, and the island, according to English official documents, became completely "cleared" of natives, except for an insignificant number of Europeanized mestizos of Anglo-Tasmanian origin.
The British historian and journalist Hammond John Lawrence Le Breton cynically summed up the outcome of the Tasmanian genocide: "The Tasmanians were useless and everyone died."
Truganini.
In Australia, the entertainment of English gentlemen was not much different from the entertainment of their neighbors on the island of Tasmania. The Australian government, modeled on the Tasmanian government's punitive squads, has created a mounted police unit - the so-called “savage cops”.
This unit carried out the order "to find and destroy": the natives were either killed or driven from the inhabited territories. Most often, the police surrounded the Aboriginal parking lot at night, and at dawn they attacked and shot everyone.
The last massacre of a peaceful tribe, which is confirmed by documents, was committed by a detachment of police officers in 1928 in the North-West: the inhabitants were captured, shackled to the back of their heads, and then all but three women were killed. After that, the police burned the corpses and took the women with them to the camp. Leaving the camp, they also killed and burned the women.
Poisoned food was also widely used by the white settlers to exterminate the natives. One of the colonialists in 1885 boasted:
To calm niggas down they got something amazing The food they were given was half strychnine, and no one escaped their fate … The owner of Long Lagoon, using this trick, killed over a hundred blacks.
The trade of native women flourished among Anglo-Australian farmers, and English settlers hunted them in groups. One government report from 1900 notes that "these women were passed from farmer to farmer until ultimately thrown away as trash, leaving them to rot from sexually transmitted diseases."
At the end of the 19th century, Anglo-Saxon racists entertained themselves by driving entire families of aborigines into the water to the crocodiles.
The colonists did not receive direct instructions from London to exterminate the Aborigines, but it cannot be said that none of the British thinkers "blessed" them. For example, Benjamin Kidd categorically asserted that "slavery is the most natural and one of the most reasonable institutions."
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, which was already in force in the post-war years, prescribed (Article 127) "not to count the Aborigines" when calculating the population of individual states. Thus, their involvement in the human race was constitutionally denied.
Back in 1865, Europeans, when faced with the indigenous people, were not sure whether they were dealing with "clever monkeys or with very underdeveloped people."
In 1901, a Labor politician from Queensland Vincent Yassin said the Australian parliament: "Nigger should disappear with the development of the white man" - so "is the law of evolution."
The British colonists openly committed atrocities against the aborigines of Australia and Tasmania, not only because of the land or even racial hatred, but simply for pleasure, showing their cruelty, moral abomination, greed and inner meanness.