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Forced removal and assimilation

Displacement, dispossession and cultural suppression.

Herero and Nama prisoners during the 1904–1908 war against German colonial rule.Genocide

Herero and Nama genocide

Germany's colonial extermination campaign against Ovaherero and Nama communities.

Horace Vernet’s painting of the capture of Constantine in 1837; an artistic depiction of the French conquest.Colonial conquest

French conquest of Algeria

The military conquest that established French rule through dispossession and destructive warfare.

Food distribution at the Al-Magroon concentration camp under Italian colonial rule.Colonial detention system

Italian concentration camps in Cyrenaica

Mass deportation and confinement used to break Libyan resistance to Fascist Italy.

An illustration from J. Ross Browne’s 1864 work depicting militia violence against an Indigenous camp.Genocide

California genocide

State-supported violence and coercive labour directed against California's Native peoples.

Memorial at New Echota to Cherokee people who died along the Trail of Tears.Forced removal

Trail of Tears: Cherokee removal

The forced expulsion of the Cherokee Nation despite widespread opposition to removal.

A study period at the Catholic residential school in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories.Forced assimilation system

Canadian residential-school system

The separation of Indigenous children from families to suppress cultures and identities.

A later depiction of the removal of Aboriginal children on the Great Australian Clock in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building.Forced child removal

Stolen Generations

The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children under discriminatory policies.

A 1909 map of prevailing religions in British India; background to Partition, not the borders created in 1947.Mass displacement

Partition and mass displacement in South Asia

The displacement and communal violence accompanying the end of British rule.

An unnamed resident of Diego Garcia photographed in 1971, during the period of displacement.Forced removal

Expulsion of the Chagossians

Island communities removed to make way for a British–American military base.

Palestinian residents leaving Haifa under armed Haganah supervision, April 1948.Mass displacement

Nakba and Palestinian displacement

The displacement and dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the establishment of Israel.

A modern map showing routes of Circassian displacement toward the Ottoman Empire.Mass expulsion

Circassian expulsion

Russian conquest driving Circassian communities from their homeland into deadly exile.

A modern montage of Crimean Tatar deportation memorials, demonstrations and population maps; not a photograph of the 1944 operation.Mass deportation

Deportation of the Crimean Tatars

Stalin's government deporting an entire people under an allegation of collective disloyalty.