Mowla Bluff massacre
Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates 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.
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A belated police investigation into the events took place in 1918, after two survivors were found with the bullets still within their bodies.[1]
One account states that three or four hundred people were killed and only three survived.[2]
In 2000 a memorial plaque was erected in Geegully Creek, Mowla Bluff, to commemorate the victims of the massacre.[3]
A documentary film about the massacre, Whispering in our Hearts: The Mowla Bluff Massacre, was released in 2001.[1]
See also
References
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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
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