The Aboriginal Tasmanian or the Palawa people are the black, indigenous group of people that arrived on the island of Tasmania 40,000 years ago through an ancient bridge that linked the island to Australia. Tasmania is 200 miles from the Southeast of Australia.
They were seen as fewer humans for their features; although reddish-brown, they had curled hair, had a broad nose, wide mouth, short and plumpy.

Because of the sea level that submerged the bridge that serves as the entrance and exit from the island, the Aboriginal Tasmanians were isolated from the outside world for 8,000 to 10,000 years until the Dutch invaders’ arrival in December 1642, archeologically dated 35,000 years ago.

Abel Jansen, the Dutch navigator who led the team on reaching the island, named it Van Diemen, in honor of Dutch Governor-General of the East India Company, Anthony Van Diemen.

After the British arrived Tasmania and made it home of the prisoners, on the 28th of January 1777, the people’s population was about 10,000 to 15,000 dwellers until the genocide from the British government.

Before 1804, the British had started killing the Palawa people. They were raped, killed, and tortured.

Their men were tied against the trees and had them being used as shooting practice.

The convicts and prisoners were allowed to use the black Tasmanians for sports, including spearing, shooting or clubbing them to death for fun.

This inhumane act was unchallenged to the extent that the British roasts the Tasmanian babies while they rejoice in their anguish.

Their women were kidnapped and raped continuously, with chains binding them.

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