The murder of a boy in Australia horrifies Aboriginals
The country has another reckoning with racism
THE LAST picture of Cassius Turvey, a 15-year-old Aboriginal boy of Western Australia’s Noongar and Yamatji nations, showed him lying unconscious on a hospital bed, attached to a ventilator. His head, shaved by medics, was marked with a heavy gash. He was “an innocent victim of a violent attack”, the state’s police said.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Voiceless”
Asia November 12th 2022
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