INDIGENOUS GENOCIDE, CLIMATE GENOCIDE AND HOLOCAUST DENIAL BY WHITE AUSTRALIA
Dr Gideon Polya
CounterCurrents.org
Ma y 12 2009
Australia has an over 2 century history of involvement in
genocide. However this appalling genocide history is kept hidden by
a sustained process of Australian holocaust denial and genocide denial
Before going further it must be clearly stated that the term "Genocide"
used here is "Genocide" as precisely defined by Article 2 of the UN
Genocide Convention as follows: "In the present Convention, genocide
means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy,
in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group,
as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily
or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on
the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical
destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to
prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children
of the group to another group" (see:
/sideshow/genocide/con vention.html ).
Further, in assessing deaths from particular policies of invasion,
occupation and dispossession one notes that deaths can be violent
(from bombs and bullets) or non-violent (from deprivation and
deprivation-exacerbated disease). Both kinds of avoidable death (death
that should not have happened) are included within the term "excess
death" used below (see "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since
1950", G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007:
and "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950 (2008
lecture)": 08/
body-count-global-avoidable-mortality.html ).
The following catalogue of Australian involvement in Genocide – as
defined by the UN Genocide Convention and notably in British- and
American-imposed genocides – is given below in roughly chronological
order from 1788 (the year of European Invasion and First Settlement)
to 2009. A key reference is my book "Body Count. Global avoidable
mortality since 1950"; other relevant books are Chalk, F. and
Jonassohn, K. (1990), "The History and Sociology of Genocide. Analyses
and Case Studies" (Yale University Press, New Haven & London); Tatz,
C. (2003), "With Intent to Destroy. Reflecting on Genocide" (Verso,
London); Blum, W. (2006), "Rogue State, A guide to the world’s only
superpower" (Zed Books, London); and my book "Jane Austen and the
Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial
and the crisis in biological sustainability" (GM. Polya, Melbourne,
1998 & 2008: ). The following list
is an updated and amplified version of that originally published in
MWC News as "Australia’s secret genocide history. La Trobe, "Bundoora
Eucalyptus" and black crimes of white Australia" on MWC News, 30
April 2008: .
1. 18th-19th century Aboriginal Genocide (the Indigenous Aboriginal
population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million in the first
century after invasion in 1788).
2. Tasmanian Aboriginal Genocide (the "full-blood" Indigenous
population dropped from 6,000 to zero in 1803-1776; however there are
several thousand "mixed race" decendants of Tasmanian and Mainland
Aborigines still living in Tasmania today).
3. British Indian Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 0.6 billion,
1757-1837; 0.5 billion, 1837-1901 under Queen Victoria; 0.4 billion,
1901-1947, and 1.5 billion in all – or 1.8 billion if you include
the so-called Native States of the British Raj).
4. European Chinese Genocide (10-100 million deaths in the European
imperialism-driven Tai Ping rebellion period; Australia was involved
in suppressing the Boxer rebellion).
5. Maori Genocide (the Maori population dropped from 0.1-0.2 million
in 1800 to 42,000 in 1893; Australia was involved in the 19th century
Maori wars).
6. African Genocide (scores of millions perished over 5 centuries
of European slavery and colonialism; Australians participated in the
Sudan War, 1881-1898 and the Boer War in South Africa, 1899-1902).
7. Pacific Genocide (there was a catastrophic population decline
due to introduced disease and slavery; thus 40,000 Fijians died
from measles out of a population of 150,000 in 1876; "blackbirding"
slavery was conducted by Australians in the late 19th century, with
the Melanesian slaves – "Kanakas" – being taken to sugar plantations
in the Australian state of Queensland).
8. Boer (Afrikaaner) Genocide (1899-1902; 28,000 Afrikaaner women and
children died in British concentration camps; Australians participated
in the Boer War as immortalized in the movie "Breaker Morant" ).
9. Armenian Genocide (1.5 million killed; the Australian invasion
of Gallipoli as part of an Anglo-French force in 1915 helped to
precipitate this atrocity; indeed April 24 is Armenian Genocide Day
and April 25 is the day of the Australia invasion in 1915 and also a
sacred war dead remembrance day for Australians and New Zealanders –
it is called Anzac Day after the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
(ANZAC) which stormed ashore on that first Anzac Day at Gallipoli
in 1915).
10. Bengali Genocide (6-7 million perished in the "forgotten" man-made
Bengal Famine atrocity in Bengal and adjoining provinces in British
India, 1943-1945; Australians were there and indeed the Governor
of Bengal in 1944 was an Australian, R.G. Casey; for a recent BBC
broadcast about the WW2 Bengal Famine involving me, Nobel Laureate
Professor Amartya Sen of Harvard University, medical historian Dr
Sanjoy Bhattacharya of University College London and other scholars
see: bengalfamine_programme.html
).
11. British post-1950 Third World Genocide (1950-2005 excess deaths
in countries subject to British occupation as a major occupier in
the post-war era totalled 727 million; Australia has the same Head
of State as the UK and continues to be a loyal military ally of the
UK in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan).
12. US post-1950 Third World Genocide (1950-2005 excess deaths in
countries subject to US occupation as a major occupier in the post-war
era totalled 82 million; Australia participated in all post-1950 US
Asian Wars in Korea, Indo-China, Iraq and Afghanistan with Indigenous
Asian excess deaths now totalling 25 million).
13. Australian Colonial Genocide (1950-2005 excess deaths in countries
subject to Australian occupation as a major occupier in the post-war
era, namely Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands totalled 2.1
million).
14. 20th century Aboriginal Genocide (total excess deaths are
clearly of the order of 1 million; 0.1 million Stolen Generations
Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their Mothers in the 19th
and 20th centuries; excess deaths in the 11 years of the Bush-ite
Howard Coalition Government totalled 90,000 for 1996-2007; currently
about 9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably each year out of a
population of about 0.5 million as detailed in item #18 below).
The following Australian genocide involvements in this catalogue of
horrors are ongoing.
15. Palestinian Genocide (post-1967 excess deaths 0.3 million,
post-1967 under-5 infant deaths 0.2 million and 7 million refugees;
with bi-partisan agreement Australia provides diplomatic, financial
and haven support for Israeli state terrorism – even when directed
against tens of thousands of Australian citizens as in Lebanon in
mid-2006 – and up to life imprisonment for anyone giving support
to the Hamas Party that overwhelmingly won the 2006 Occupied
Palestinian elections; Australia makes contributions to racist Zionist
colonization – i.e. to the Palestinian Genocide – tax deductible:
8562 ).
16. Iraqi Genocide (4.1 million excess deaths 1990-2009; 1.3 million
post-invasion violent excess deaths and 1.0 million post-invasion
non-violent excess deaths i.e. 2.3 million post-invasion violent and
non-violent excess deaths; 0.6 million post-invasion under-5 infant
deaths; and 5-6 million refugees; Australia has been militarily
involved in the Iraqi Genocide since 1990; for details as of
March 2008 see "Iraqi Genocide":
Messages190308.ht m#polya ).
17. Afghan Genocide (3-7 million post-invasion violent and non-violent
excess deaths, 2.3 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, and
4 million refugees; Australia was involved militarily in Occupied
Afghanistan from after the US invasion in 2001).
18. Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide (9,000 excess deaths annually; 90,000
excess deaths in the last 11 years of Bush-ite Coalition rule;
for details and documentation see "Aboriginal genocide. Racist
White Australian child abuse and passive mass murder":
0/42/ ).
19. Biofuel Genocide (16 million die avoidably each year but this is
increasingly biofuel-impacted as the legislatively-mandated US, UK
and EU biofuel perversion forces up global food prices; Australia is
a major sugar cane grower and sugar exporter with 60% of sugar going
to bioethanol production worldwide; Australia has biofuel-promoting
legislation and is a major canola grower, this being a major source for
biodiesel; for detailed and documented analysis see my Biofuel lecture
notes: 05/
biofuel-famine-biofuel-genocide-meat.html
and
2008/04/biof uel-famine-biofuel-genocide-and.html ).
20. Climate Genocide (16 million die avoidably each year already
from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease; Professor
James Lovelock FRS says that only 1 billion will survive this
century i.e. about 10 billion (2 billion being Indians) will perish
this century due to unaddressed climate change; on a per capita
basis Australia is among the very worst greenhouse gas (GHG)
polluters – in terms of 2004 figures for "fossil fuel-derived
annual per capita CO2 pollution" Australia is about 40 times
worse than India and 160 times worse than Bangladesh if you
include Australia’s world number 1 coal exports; for details and
documentation see " "Climate Disruption, Climate Emergency, Climate
Genocide & Penultimate Bengali Holocaust through Sea Level Rise":
eyclimateactiongroup/
climate-disruption-climate-e mergency-climate-genocide-
penultimate-bengali-hol ocaust-through-sea-level-rise ).
Of these Australian-complicit genocides, the already-commenced Climate
Genocide is most likely going to be the worst – with the likelihood
of 10 billion non-Europeans perishing due to First World inaction over
First World GHG pollution. Australia is a disproportionate contributor
to this man-made holocaust that is largely confined to the non-European
World. Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter, the OECD’s worst
per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) polluter and a remorseless world leader
in annual per capita GHG pollution. "Annual per capita greenhouse gas
(GHG) pollution" in units of "tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per
year" (2005-2008 data) is 2.2 (India), 6.7 (the World), 11 (Europe),
27 (the US) and 30 (Australia; or 54 if Australia’s huge Exported
CO2 pollution is included).
Just as Australia has made Palestinian Genocide tax deductible,
so the latest Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) of the extreme
right wing, pro-coal, pro-war Rudd Labor Government provides
massive, "business as usual" subsidies for GHG polluters (see
"Pro-coal Australian Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) devalues
Australian lives, threatens Biosphere and ignores Science ":
imateactiongroup/
latest-pro-coal-australian-emiss ions-trading-scheme-ets-devalues-
australian-lives -threatens-biosphere-and-ignores-science-
and-clim ate-emergency ).
Yet politically correct racist (PC racist) Australia steadfastly
"looks the other way" and its past and present involvements in
the above atrocities are overwhelmingly not reported by racist,
lying, holocaust-ignoring Mainstream media nor taught in Australia’s
schools and universities. PC racist White Australia just cannot see
the "elephant in the room" – its continuing involvement in over 2
centuries of horrendous genocide.
Remarkable evidence of this Australian Holocaust Denial and
Genocide Denial is obtained when one does a Search for the various
genocides, specifically for the phrases "Aboriginal Genocide",
"Indian Genocide", "Bengali Genocide", "Iraqi Genocide" etc, on
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) search device (see:
) – the result is essentially ZERO (0) related
links found, whereas searches for these phrases on Yahoo or Google
variously reveals hundreds to tens of thousands of URLs.
The Australian ABC is generally regarded as the most "liberal"
of the Mainstream media of Australia – and indeed is regarded as
"left wing" by the generally extreme right wing journalists of the
Murdoch and Fairfax media empires that dominate "news" reporting
in holocaust-complicit and holocaust denying, "look the other
way" Australia – the Land of Flies, Lies and Slies (spin-based
untruths). It is not hard to imagine the awfulness of the other
generally pro-coal and pro-war Australian Mainstream media in relation
to holocaust commission, genocide commission, holocaust-ignoring
and genocide-ignoring.
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is
complicity. Decent people are obliged to (a) inform others about these
continuing atrocities and (b) ensure that they are not complicit
in these crimes of genocide commission and genocide denial through
avoidable dealings with the people, corporations and countries
responsible for these outrages.
Australians are trapped in a Mainstream media-imposed Orwellian dream
and will only conceivably stop doing Genocide when they are informed
that they are doing it. Sanctions and boycotts are urgently required
because Australia is committing these crimes for money – and money is
the only thing that amoral, wealth-obsessed Australia will understand.
Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade
scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference
text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC
Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003). He has recently
published "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950"
(G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007:
and ) and an updated 2008
version of his 1998 book "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of
British History, Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the
crisis in biological sustainability" (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2008:
). He is currently teaching
Biochemistry theory and practical courses to second year university
agricultural science students at a very good Australian university.