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Racial Violence Erupts in Sydney, Australia Suburbs

Riotous assembly … a mob assaults a man with beer bottles at North Cronulla yesterday. By last night, youths of Middle Eastern background were out for revenge, which included vandalising more than 100 cars at Maroubra.
Photo: Andrew Meares


Racial violence reared its ugly head again, this time in several Sydney, Australia suburbs. Caucasian Australians violently clashed with those of Lebanese, Middle Eastern and Aboriginal origins. The violence followed a week of simmering tension after an attack the previous Sunday on two lifesavers.

Race riots spread to suburbs
By Les Kennedy, Damien Murphy, Malcolm Brown and Tim Colquhoun
December 12, 2005


RACIAL violence erupted in several Sydney suburbs last night in retaliation for a rampage by thousands of young residents through Cronulla that turned the seaside suburb into a battlefield.

Political, community and religious leaders joined stunned locals to condemn an afternoon of violence by a crowd that turned on people of Middle Eastern appearance and those trying to protect them, with police and ambulance officers also attacked.

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Thugs ruled the streets, and the mob sang Waltzing Matilda
December 12, 2005
Damien Murphy describes what he saw in the middle of the Cronulla violence.

"Yesterday's violence had been brewing for months. It came to a head last weekend when some Lebanese Australian men attacked members of the North Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club after they asked the visitors to stop playing soccer because it was disturbing other beach users."

BARECHESTED youth in Quiksilver boardshorts tore the headscarf off the girl's head as she slithered down the Cronulla dune seeking safety on the beach from a thousand-strong baying mob.

Up on the road, Marcus "Carcass" Butcher, 28, a builder from Penrith, wearing workboots, war-camouflage shorts and black singlet bearing the words "Mahommid was a camel f---ing faggot" raised both arms to the sky. "F--- off, Leb," he cried victoriously.

It was one last act of cowardly violence on a sad and shameful day that began as a beach party celebrating a kind of perverted nationalism that was gatecrashed by racism.

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