Caledon Bay crisis
The Caledon Bay Crisis took place in Arnhem Land , Australia between 1932 and 1934 . It represents a turning point in the treatment of Aborigines , as after several violent clashes between Aborigines on the one hand and Japanese fishermen and white settlers on the other, in which Aborigines killed several people, a punitive expedition was initially considered, but then after various interventions Sides the matter ended with court hearings.
In 1932 five Japanese fishermen were killed by the Yolngu Aborigines on Caledon Bay after a "dispute over women". In the following season, 1933, a police force looked for the perpetrators, because the Japanese government wanted to see the safety of their fishermen. The police arrested four Aboriginal women and while the group searched for more Aborigines, one remained to watch; he was found stabbed with a spear.
At first there were press voices calling for "to teach blacks a lesson". After various organizations such as the Australian Aborigines Amelioration Association from the southern metropolises protested violently, missionaries from the Anglican Church au den Yolngu were sent to the federal government at the suggestion of an anthropologist. They returned to Darwin with five Aborigines, including Tuckiar, who confessed to stabbing the police officer after he had been holding his wife for two days and found him having sex with his wife. The group assumed they would be conversations; instead, he was tried and sentenced to death for the police officer's murder. The other four were sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of the Japanese.
Following Prime Minister J. A Lyons' intervention, the appeal against Tuckiar was overturned by the High Court and Tuckiar was released on the grounds that the latter said his account of the events was a lie. He has not been seen since his release, so there are suspicions that he was killed by police officers.
See also
literature
- Broome R (2002) Aboriginal Australians ISBN 1865087556
- Gray S (2002) Criminal laws black responses to white dominance, 1788-2001 ISBN 1865087556