... is prone to risks of re-infection." Richard Von Weiszaecker, former President of the Federal Republic of Germany Very few people use the word genocide when discussing the strife the Australian indigenous people endured. Almost all historians of the Aboriginal experience, black and white, avoid it. Typically, they write about pacifying, killing, cleansing, excluding, exterminating, starving, poisoning, shooting, beheading, sterilizing, ... light, the 1886 Act could be construed as an attempt at legal genocide. Certainly it was aimed at removing the Aborigines as a distinct and observabl...

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... : 1)the coordinated and planned annihilation of a National, Religious, or racial group 2)by a variety of actions such as attacks on: political and social institutions, culture, languages, national feelings, religion, and economic basis of life 3) aimed at undermining the foundations essential for survival of the group as a group. Looking at ... many believe. Once this happens, it is one step closer to helping show respect to a people whom so much harm was brought upon. The Australian Aboriginal Issue: " from what I have seen in the Natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the ...

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