We are talking mass murder, and genocide by European invaders!!!
The peace and calm that the Aborigines of Tasmania enjoyed for over 10,000 years were disrupted in the December of 1642, when the first Europeans arrived on the Island, after anchoring off the Tasmanian coast.
By 1804, the British colonial government, and their convicts started to slaughter and murder the Tasmanian Aborigines in cold blood. They would kidnap, torture and enslave them.
The aborigines of Tasmania did not just sit back and watch the invaders destroy them. They put up a strong resistance. But we fear their resistance was not enough. Because if it was, they would still be around till today.
The last full-blooded Tasmanian was a man named William Lanney, who was popularly known as King Billy. Lanney was born in 1835 and grew up on Flinders Island.
The experience, suffering, and torture that Truganini faced can be said to be a full description and Biography of the persecution and genocide of the Tasmanian people.
The true figure of ancient people and civilizations that have been wiped out by Europeans over the curse of human history can never be estimated.