FED: Australia guilty of genocide researcher

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: February 22, 1999 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-1999
FED: Australia guilty of genocide researcher

By Rod McGuirk

CANBERRA, Feb 22 AAP - Australia was guilty of at least three acts of genocide against
indigenous people, a genocide researcher said today.

Professor Colin Tatz, director of Macquarie University's centre for comparative genocide
studies, found the policies that created the Stolen Generation was one of Australia's breaches
of a United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

An article of the convention defines genocide as a systematic attempt to ...

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