Breakout!

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The killers were Pevay and Timmy. In 1841 they slew two men and wounded others in an angry rampage through the Victorian countryside. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As Tasmanian Aborigines they had many reasons to be angry. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When teenagers they'd been jailed for being black. They'd taken unwilling part in the ethnic cleansing of Tasmania. Forcedly interned in a bleak offshore gulag they'd watched helplessly as friends and family died of disease and despair. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then they were exiled to Victoria where colonists victimised them. It was the last straw. They stole guns and seized their freedom. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Their breakout was vengeful and violent. Farms were raided settlers shot. Despite firefights and ambushes they evaded pursuers for weeks before being captured in a blaze of gunfire.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Their murder trial was a farce. Public officials lied under oath. The judge was biased and inept. The verdict was a foregone conclusion. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now for the first time their tragic story is told in full. From their perilous boyhood during Tasmania's Black War to their botched hanging in a crowded Melbourne street.</span></p>