Case in point: Tasmanian genocide. The entire nation was wiped out by the British. Nobody survived.
This seems transparently false based on the most cursory of research. Just reading the wikipedia article, the story of the Black War/Tasmanian genocide seems to have ended with the last ~100 or so aboriginal Tasmanians surviving, out of a possible initial pre-contact population of between 3000-7000 (with 30 years elapsing between contact and the final exile of the Tasmanians from their homeland).
So: that the nation was wiped out by the British? I would evaluate that as true. That nobody survived? Totally false. Was it a genocide? As a wikipedia warrior I definitely don’t deserve to stake a position without actually reading more, but the historiography as presented in the wiki seems ambiguous about the aptness of applying the genocide label. “Cultural genocide” I think needs a new label, but that category absolutely would apply as far as I can see.
Fair enough. The information was taken from some book, it’s a long time, I don’t remember exactly, possibly Dawkins. Anyway, I’ve fixed the article. Thanks for pointing that out!
This seems transparently false based on the most cursory of research. Just reading the wikipedia article, the story of the Black War/Tasmanian genocide seems to have ended with the last ~100 or so aboriginal Tasmanians surviving, out of a possible initial pre-contact population of between 3000-7000 (with 30 years elapsing between contact and the final exile of the Tasmanians from their homeland).
So: that the nation was wiped out by the British? I would evaluate that as true. That nobody survived? Totally false. Was it a genocide? As a wikipedia warrior I definitely don’t deserve to stake a position without actually reading more, but the historiography as presented in the wiki seems ambiguous about the aptness of applying the genocide label. “Cultural genocide” I think needs a new label, but that category absolutely would apply as far as I can see.
Fair enough. The information was taken from some book, it’s a long time, I don’t remember exactly, possibly Dawkins. Anyway, I’ve fixed the article. Thanks for pointing that out!