On this day, 1 June 1926, a police patrol in Wyndham, Australia headed out searching for an aboriginal man who killed a white man who had assaulted and whipped him. They returned on 19 June, but in the meantime the Forrest River massacre took place, when the officers murdered and burned anywhere between 11 and 300 indigenous people. A Royal Commission confirmed the massacre took place but no officers were convicted of any offences.
Pictured: Left: two of the people arrested; right: two aboriginal trackers https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1136240919894390/?type=3
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