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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Lorena Allam Indigenous affairs editor

Aboriginal man laid to rest in moving ceremony 90 years after he was killed by police at Uluru

Pastor Malcolm Willcocks speaks at a ceremony to lay to rest the remains of Pitjantjatjara man Yukun, whose great-grandson/nephew Abraham Poulson looks on.
Pastor Malcolm Willcocks speaks at a ceremony to lay to rest the remains of Pitjantjatjara man Yukun, whose great-grandson/nephew Abraham Poulson looks on. Photograph: Dean Sewell/Oculi/The Guardian

The families of an Aboriginal man shot and killed by police at Uluru 90 years ago, have finally laid his remains to rest at the base of the rock in a deeply emotional ceremony, with his descendants calling for an apology and compensation from governments and police.

The partial remains of Pitjantjatjara man Yukun were repatriated to the place where he was shot and killed in 1934 by mounted constable Bill McKinnon.

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