Mowla Bluff massacre
The Mowla Bluff massacre was an incident involving the murder of a number of Indigenous Australians at Geegully Creek, near Mowla Bluff, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in 1916.
Mowla Bluff is a cattle station 140 kilometres (87 mi) south of Derby and 75 kilometres (47 mi) southwest of Jarlmadangah. Responding to the brutality of the white station manager, some local men gave him a beating. In reprisal, an armed mob which included officials and residents 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]
See also
References
External links
- Mowla Bluff memorial signals new beginning
- Whispering in Our Hearts
- 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
Categories:
- 1916 in Australia
- Crime in Western Australia
- History of Australia (1901–45)
- History of Western Australia
- History of Indigenous Australians
- Massacres in Australia
- Racial massacres
- Kimberley (Western Australia)
- Death in Western Australia
- 20th century in Western Australia
- Violence against Aboriginal Australians
- Mass shootings in Australia