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By ROD McGUIRK<\/strong><\/p>\n

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 Three Australian appeals court judges reserved their decision Wednesday on whether an activist can prosecute Britain\u2019s King Charles III for alleged genocide of Australia\u2019s Indigenous people.<\/p>\n

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Uncle Robbie Thorpe, 68, turned to the Supreme Court of Appeal in Victoria state after two lower courts rejected his bid to launch a private prosecution against the king in the Melbourne Magistrates\u2019 Court. Indigenous Australians use the titles uncle and aunt as marks of respect for community elders.<\/p>\n

His case alleges the monarch, who is also Australia\u2019s head of state, the Australian government and its institutions were perpetuating a genocide of Indigenous people by maintaining systemic disadvantages on multiple socioeconomic levels, making them the most underprivileged minority in the country.<\/p>\n

Indigenous Australians account for 4% of the population. They die younger than other Australians, suffer worse health problems, and are more likely to be imprisoned and unemployed than other groups, according to official statistics.<\/p>\n

Thorpe told The Associated Press if he exhausts his legal options in Australia, he would take the offense under the Genocide Convention to the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s clear that they\u2019re unwilling, unable, reluctant to deal with these international legal issues like genocide,\u201d Thorpe told the AP before the hearing, referring to the Australian judiciary.<\/p>\n

He later told the judges Indigenous people were dying because their disadvantage in Australia was compounding.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Crown is responsible for all this mess,\u201d Thorpe said. \u201cAustralia\u2019s got away with genocide of Aboriginal people since they arrived here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The British colonized Australia in 1788 and violently seized Indigenous people\u2019s land without a treaty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey totally failed to prevent (genocide). That\u2019s the crime here. They failed to prevent genocide knowingly and they failed to punish anyone for it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The British punished Indigenous people for speaking their language and for practicing their cultures in a bid to make them Christian and Western. Generations of children were taken from Indigenous families in now-discredited assimilation policies.<\/p>\n

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Thorpe wore a traditional possum-skin coat in court and carried a feather from an Australian wedge-tailed eagle, an Indigenous totem.<\/p>\n

He requested to be addressed in court as Uncle Robbie or by his tribal name Djuran Bunjileenee.<\/p>\n

Justice Karin Emerton, the court\u2019s presiding judge, referred to him as Uncle Robbie.<\/p>\n

The king was identified in court documents as Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor.<\/p>\n

Thorpe is attempting to charge the king under Indigenous law that has existed for more than 65,000 years, state common law and federal criminal law, court documents show.<\/p>\n

In dismissing Thorpe\u2019s appeal last year, a judge ruled that a magistrate was not allowed to consider Indigenous law and genocide was not an offense under common law.<\/p>\n

The federal attorney-general would have to sign off on any genocide prosecution under federal law, the judge ruled.<\/p>\n

Following a two-hour hearing on Wednesday, Emerton said the three judges would deliver their verdict at a later date.<\/p>\n

If Thorpe loses, his final option would be Australia\u2019s High Court before attempting to have the king prosecuted in The Hague.<\/p>\n

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