Pakistan, Sept. 29 -- Three Australian appellate judges on Monday rejected an activist's landmark bid to prosecute Britain's King Charles III over the alleged genocide of Indigenous people.

The ruling by Victoria state's Court of Appeal leaves Uncle Robbie Thorpe with one final domestic option: seeking permission to appeal to the High Court of Australia. The High Court accepts only about 10% of applications for leave to appeal.

Indigenous Australians use the titles 'uncle' and 'aunt' as marks of respect for community elders.

Thorpe, a 68-year-old elder of the Krautatungalung people, said Monday that he did not expect to receive a fair hearing in Australia. After exhausting his options in Australian courts, he said he would take his all...