Captain Cook statue again vandalized before the controversial ‘Australia’ Day ‘| News of the rights of the natives
The statue of the British explorer was sprayed with red and destroyed in the eastern suburb of Sydney.
The statue of Captain James Cook in the eastern Sydney suburb was sprayed with red and his hand was removed for several days before the Australians celebrate their controversial “Australia Day” on Sunday.
Police of the new South Wales announced that she had received reports on the destroyed statoui on the eastern beaches in Sydney in Randwick on Friday morning and that police seized “numerous items” at the scene.
The statute was recently undergoing restoration works after a similar incident in February last year.
Cook arrived at the Sydney Cove 1770, where he and his crew disembarked at Botany Bay, opening the continent now known as Australia to colonize the British Crown.
Nine years later, he was killed by the native peoples during an attempt to abduct the Hawaiian chief.
As a historical person, it is often associated with the day of Australia, which takes place on January 26, in memory of the first fleet in Australia in 1788.
The state holiday usually faces major protests by native groups and their supporters throughout the Australian cities, which they call this holiday “day invasion” or “survival day” because it indicates the beginning of the violent European colonization of the continent.
Indigenous peoples and their supporters claim that this signifies the moment of sadness, loss and shame for descendants of European colonists, or alternatively, the survival of the people of the first nations.
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Australia was a home for more than 500 different native groups with multiple languages that were present on the continent for 60,000 years – if not longer.
Conservatives and nationalists rejected such calls as “discord”, including the former Australian liberal Prime Minister John Howard, who rejected what he called the “Black Lat Australian history” in favor of a more positive emphasis on a common struggle, persistence and prevailing adversity.
