The Flying Foam Massacre was a massacre of Aboriginal people around Flying Foam Passage on Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) in Western Australia by colonial settlers.[1] Comprising a series of atrocities between February and May 1868,[2][3] the massacre was in retaliation to the killing of a police officer, a police assistant, and a local workman.[4] Collectively the atrocities resulted in the deaths of an unknown number of Jaburara (or Yaburrara, Yapurarra) people, but with estimates ranging from 15 to 150 dead men, women and children.[5][6]
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If something like this happened in another country today, we would all be condemning it.
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