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Allegations of "genocide" in Xinjiang are LIES of the CENTURY. But genocide did take place in Canada, the US&Australia. In the 1870s, the Canadian government included assimilation of indigenous people in its official agenda&openly advocated “the killing of the Indian bloodline”. 
Over 150,000 indigenous children were sent to schools that enforced cultural genocide policies. Indigenous women and children are 12 times more likely to be murdered or to go missing compared with other groups, with the likelihood being 16 times higher than white people.
The American #WestwardExpansion slashed the population of native Indians from 5 million to 250,000, less than one fifth of the original.
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report will be 30yrs old next April. That's a whole generation, but the recommendations still haven't been implemented. Our people continue to die because of the governments failures. #RCIADIC
It's important to remember the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was called because of Black activism. There was mob-led movement after 16-yo John Pat died in 1983, followed by more deaths in custody. Aunty Helen Corbett took it to the UN in 1987. #RCIADIC
The Royal Commission looked at 99 Black deaths in custody between 1980-1989, with so many deaths before that which go unrecorded. Black deaths in custody have been happening since invasion. Theres now been more than 439 Aboriginal deaths in custody since #RCIADIC report in 1991
