The Black War Tasmanian Holocaust

By Dannie Gore

For 10,000 years the population of the island of Tasmania lived in complete isolation from the rest of humanity. In 1803 when the government of Britain began to settle Australia with criminals, they relocated many for severe crimes, from the mainland to the island of Tasmania. With the sanction of the British government “Patrol Teams” were formed with prisoners, led by policemen, who began to systematically kill many of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania until eventually there was only one left. Seventy-three years later, May 1876, the last person died – a woman Truganini. This completed the total annihilation of the residents of Tasmania, 6,000 in total, by the Australian settlers.