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The Mowla Bluff massacre was an incident involving the murder of a number of Indigenous Australians in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in 1916.
Mowla Bluff is a cattle station near Derby. Responding to the brutality of the white station manager, some local men gave him a beating. In reprisal, a vigilante group which included officials and locals rounded up a large number of Aboriginal men, women and children who were then shot. The bodies were burned.
One account states that three or four hundred people were killed and only three survived.[1]
Contents
See also
- List of massacres in Australia
References
External links
- Mowla Bluff memorial signals new beginning
- Whispering in Our Hearts
- A story retold - National Indigenous Times
- Closing the circle on a bloody chapter, Sydney Morning Herald
Further reading
- Mason, Flur-Elise. Story must be told. about Whispering in our hearts (Motion picture) Broome Advertiser, 22 Aug. 2001, p. 11
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- Crime in Western Australia
- History of Australia (1901–1945)
- History of Western Australia
- History of Indigenous Australians
- Massacres in Australia
- Kimberley (Western Australia)
- Death in Western Australia
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