By that reasoning the Maori extermination of the Chatham Island Moriori counts too. In less than thirty years, the population fell from 2000 to 101, and the last full-blooded Moriori died in the 1930s.
That's fair. I should've expanded on that in a more comprehensive way. Uuuuh, genocided in such a way that their entire language, culture and ethnicity were wiped out. All 'Palawa' culture today is reconstructed from what few historical scraps were recovered. 'Only' was probably the wrong word; 'comprehensive' or 'total' would've been better. 'One of the only comprehensive or total ethnocultural genocides in history'.
It's not the only successful genocide. What about the Taino? How about the Conestogas, the last of which were also murdered in cold blood? A lot of indigenous peoples in the Americas, the Pacific, and Siberia were wiped out in modern times.
First of all, relax. You're coming across very aggressively in a way that I don't appreciate.
Now, the Taino are arguably still extant in the descendants of Carib Mestizos, and there is some argument as to whether they were completely wiped out or persisted in the Antillean highlands for such a time that they became indistinguishable from the aforementioned Mestizos. Further, their genetic markers are in fact dominant among Puerto Rican citizens where 69.6% of the studied Puerto Ricans were found to have Taino genetic markers,
according to a 2003 study by the University of Puerto Rico, meaning their contribution to the country's genetic makeup is substantial. This would not be the case were they completely genocided out of existence or into obscurity. (I don't know if you'll need an institutional proxy to view the PDF, sorry if you do)
The destruction of the Susquehannock/Conestoga does not constitute a genocide, unfortunately. They are a subcultural group of the Iroquois; the total destruction of the Iroquois would constitute a genocide, but not a subculture of the Iroquois. While it's not necessarily complaisant, under Article 6 of the
Rome Statute you can only genocide national, ethnical, racial or religious groups. The Susquqhannock does not fall into any of these categories, unfortunately, and so their destruction is not genocide.
It was probably a misstatement to say that the Palawa were the only group to ever be completely wiped out, but I would question your parameters for what constitutes a genocide. Contrary to popular belief the definition of genocide is rather narrow. It has to be the active and continued suppression and destruction of any of the aforementioned groups, and is only considered complete and total when every single member of that group is dead. This is why I tend to paraphrase and say the Palawa are the only group to be completely wiped out because they are one of the few groups to fit the definition of 'complete genocide'. However I do rescind my statement that they are in fact the
only group to be completely wiped out as that is beyond the scope of my knowledge.