Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Genocide Research
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,1 (2001) 75-87
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Aboriginal Australians
Abstract:
Argues that the Australian treatment of its Aborigines since the 1930s should be considered as genocide. This is due to the clear racism involved in both legislative and administrative practices aimed at allowing or encouraging the "pure blood" Aborigines to die out while those of mixed descent were encouraged to intermarry so that there would eventually be no Australians of color. The aspect of this assimilationist policy that was "a clear case of genocide" was the transfer of non-White children to White families in contravention of Article II(e) of the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention. Pp. 80-83 discuss a parallel expression of Australian racism in the restriction, both legal and administrative, of Jewish immigration just before and during the Holocaust. Since Australian legislation does not recognize genocide as a crime, the initiators and executors of the genocidal policy toward the Aborigines cannot be prosecuted in Australian courts.
Note:
On Australian immigration policy regarding the Jews in the Holocaust period.
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