The indigenous population of the state of Victoria suffered “near-complete physical destruction” at the hands of colonists, a report has said
British colonisers committed “genocide” against the Aboriginal people in the Australian state of Victoria after arriving in the area in the early 1830s, a commission investigating injustices against the indigenous population has said.
The colonization of Victoria, Australia’s second smallest state, located in the southeast of the country, took place between 1834 and 1851.
During that period, its indigenous population suffered “near-complete physical destruction,” falling from around 60,000 to 15,000…
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