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me under the orders. if the police commissioner pays brian $200.00 officers, right. hello p. a strange with the media and we did stuff a lot, but it was only those people who shot killed dealt was a drug was against the move the in the coming days in rides across south with sydney. the police crept down on known criminals and their associates. eventually 24 men arrested. the people living in principle, we knew that was happening a couple of years before. before that, it wasn't anything new to us, but you could possibly be the only matter one of one can up the police and i'm glad

that he did because he suddenly changed things a few years after that. so there was a lot of a lot of clean up, i guess him punch bowl straight off i i think incidents like the matter of edward li sika stuff very intensely, very quickly on having enough of a dialogue and narrative credibility. understanding with that public so that they have faith and can come forward and give you information and talk to you about the need would lima then in a series of incidents and staff with sydney around that time, 5 young police stuff. they're still alive after they station was fried with gunfire, but the gangsters don't go down without a fight. 12 days later, they open fire on the camera police station with semi automatic guns, 5 police officers as rumble

a targets in the shooting galleries. me to drive by shooting of light came to police station was a confronting event, probably unprecedented. so it resonated with me is that it was a direct and very blunt challenge to authority to police and to government generally and to society. i have to say sort of a cowardly way, really of attacking someone and trying to intimidate them and threaten them without having to confront them. certainly the shooting of like him, a police station fitted into that category. a state election line. and both sides of politics compete to bang the law and order drum, the small minority of gangs that the focus, but an entire community and culture. feel the have more in order will prevail through a strong well resort. probably equipped police force these gangs will be wiped

rather than framing this as here is a community under threat from its own deviant rump is presented to the community and the water world as this is something that is particular and peculiar to this community. it's their problem, not else. and from then on the basis for the future, the bite is sit in a very nasty and toxic why i'm proud of my use lamp. this cancelled me like, you know, even if you taught me how to respect us as an accept them. and that's the most important part at the height of the as lemme phobia. naughty a sally is employed at the local government family support worker in south sydney. i was always organizing on christmas hampers and christmas toys for family and

children. i called one client and she said not here. would you mind if i ask you, where are you from? i said, why are you asking me i'm from here. she said, no, no, no. what's your background? i see the only beneath she said, but she won't be muslim. you're not muslim, aren't you? i said, thanks god, i mom was slim. in 2000 after immigrating during the lebanese civil war. cala nadia thought i have saved for their family dream home next to punch ballpark . first, think more thinking about it to have a secure shelter for the family because coming from wool to have a secure shelter is, is very important that they've seen horrified by what they hear

unfortunately heating the gunshots in early morning. the 1st shock was, i mean, later on we move the way from who we came. he said we're looking for safety. and fortunately, as soon as you hear that has gunshots across the right from you, it was not a positive experience. the grandstand is actually, is a meeting point for all the gangs or all over sydney. after 12 o'clock, we got all these gang stand exchange drugs. they fought together. the shoot, shoot together. gangsters will hang out across the in the grand san at night. will be a haven for drug dealing, a haven for meeting out with prostitute would be just wasn't

a taste that you would want to raise a family. i'd have to admit, like we all, with our 7 year old mom years old, i'll call and the real is that police would be in every single day call sally has enough. he rallied the neighbors and they take action or write a petition. it's all neighbor sign it, sign the petition. i was paid hump out of the police to come and told area and do more lie take as well as close this grandstand didn't. and after 6 months, every month it's the problem is that the best choice to get teased because

my dad put speed humps in every street and punch bowl. there was pretty funny like nights ago said he stayed home from the bus it's. it's funny, but does wisdom behind me? because my dad started putting speed humps around the streets of punch bowl. he let the gangsters, the dogs with the fast cars always want to speed down every street. let them know, do not welcome in punch, but as the community works with the police, the hope is the media focus on criminal activity will finally die down. but things are about to get a whole lot worse. the me to sidney olympian celebration of the modern, multicultural nation, but just a few kilometers away. the liberty, the trillion community is about to be outraged. i

go, i start my shift in the morning, there's been a suspected abduction and possibly a sexual assault of a young female and the information that we had, let us to believe that it could be in one of the parks, in banks, down senior constable. danny mccarty is lebanese, it's trillion. he's born and bred in south with sydney. gold at punch bowl boys high in 2008 new comfortable with less than a year on the 4th. and nothing prepares him for what he's about to find me. i'm walking through this park and i can say it's got tissues on the, on the ground. and then i noticed an old gentleman why

caucasian mile and he's hunched either something and he seems to be distressed. i can say young came along the ground so i don't know what was happening so i'm really can hold him to keep skipping more from from the young girl. but then i realize it is it's her father. so unfortunately message was the father is found his daughter 1st and it was clear that had been a sexual assault. it was a very, very, very traumatic experience. very, very hard thing to say that later on, information came out that it was part of a number of gang groups that have happened in our city. i was very, very upset, very, very sad. and it was to me, one of the most deplorable, actually you can even to commit on someone else and just thinking what that go would have been going through at the time is just her in the us now being and that

i've got to, i'm the father of a young girl, i'd say something that i can comprehend, and i would never want to be in that in that father's position. and i went out to another me the park in which it happened was only a few houses up from my house being so close behind the media and the police and the stories. i mean, i have 3 older sisters and it's scary to to know that these things happen so close to home. when the rape occurs. mohammed cub rudely is a student at punch ball boys high. some days later, a new attack is a stark lesson in the cruelty of sex crime. painstaking later police pace together a chilling patent of crime. a gang of teenagers is raping young girls using unusual and degrading violence. but because most of the accused under

1810 names are not made public. what is revealed is that they are all lebanese australian. not much happens about them until well after the olympics, when the, when the accused brought to court and suddenly the media or what happened next is that there was an intense glare of media and public attention about what happened about the think backgrounds of the use and they will use that were involved from southwest sidney. i think it really shook the community till it's cold. i think it really made every family question what they were, how they were raising their kids. because it was something that was unable seen or unheard of unthinkable that people so local, so close to home could do something, not terrible to somebody and think that they had

a right to do that. when the media storm wraps name at crudely mohammed future wife is a teenager in high school. it was very scary. i think a lot of families became fee for their daughters. my carmen, the person, me thinking, i'm never going to marry a lebanese move from god because if that's what they liked, and that's disgusting. the young women still just teenagers. every live there degrading ordeal in the courtroom. hearing again and again, the horrifying crime committed against them. in all, they were 4 victims, 3 separate attacks in several locations in sidney south waived. the daily telegraph in particular, finds the victims and gets them to repeat allegations about the woods that the assailants used against them. one of the victims said she was referred to as an all the peak and was told by one of the ripest. i'm going to

live style the woods lib style, flash around the nation. suddenly the lebanese is trailyn communities accused. right, the racial reasons, evidence, even though the court demonstrated that is responsible for these vicious and sickening crimes as liberties muslims identify themselves as liberties muslims formed in the plan of attack as literally as muslims by ellen jones introduces i new dimension. he moves from the notion which is more widely hill, about right, so they are a small minority, often psychotic, sick minded people who at the age of the social world. and he places them in the middle as an exemplar of almost from men across the

community. they were the threats received. there were mrs. just lifting little boxes. they were threats that muslim women would be dragged from the straits and raped in revenge and walking streets. you absolutely looked at differently. it would look that as he could be another another, right? this could be part of that gang. oh, you know. and because all these guys came from the area i was living in at the time it affected me even more. it's it shook my identity to the world. them and on you who i was bought the world so many differently. we have all the all the right bills in the lead you told that they were christian. catholics will do exactly. yes. i them all the way to go. right. anybody finally, the accused, a convicted and their names released. this is belinda gaff,

the man at the center of one of the nation's most notorious crimes for gang rape. the listing of the suppression order was welcome. you needed to be name the community needed. the heaviest sentence of all is reserved for the 18 year old gang. later. the message is clear. loud scuff serving an unprecedented 55 year general term for gang rape. on appeal, the sentence is reduced to 31 years and name at cooper li believes the convicted did not understand the damage they did to their own community. does not remorse. and i think that was the most awful disgusting thing. and it was an example of what quote was applying, general difference. and i think the example was definitely set. i think there was a strong societies thought the lebanese muslim community were the perpetrators of this type of behavior. when really what it said was victim us,

individuals in our community even more the guilty behind bows. but for the community, the trial goes on. we were torn apart by the whole event. and the way the way it was publicized, we felt that we needed to defend ourselves against the media. we need to defend ourselves against a politician. we need to defend ourselves against old, the hate mail that we received. we went afraid we were just afraid that we didn't know what to do. i wasn't only live in a bushel to experience this many liberties christians also experienced it because in the wider public ignorant mind, it was simply enough to be arab lebanese from the middle east, irrespective of religion or faith. lack of

a community is under media age. the and as races, tensions increase to, to the police presence on the street, the, the drug gangs are the most obvious target is the crack down, continues the underworld, drug supply continues to spread. the cabbage didn't stop. the drug distribution didn't stop. once you take a run around, unfortunately there's someone there to take the place almost to my dealing with the hello p, a straight punch bowl. one time to feed needs most notorious gangs. the street has returned to its old suburban line. most of these people are now in prison or enroll put symmetry ah, good, like a virus. the drug trade spreads to other areas of the tv ah,

developed the new process of high visibility high impact pushing through the through the walls, police. so we would get out a 100 police run operations through bank shannon, the streets of punch ball that came by growing acura in those other areas to turn as many criminals as we call me. and punch ball went through stability. and unfortunately, seems to be as a, as a calling process, where the place wake up realize that there's an issue quite a few people are arrested and taken to prison and then everything goes back to normal. and then the next generation comes through and i to young kids who are influenced by money and the, or of being a big tom gangster or a criminal who hang around with these flags and the mentors in the board to do this is a job. and unfortunately, they could be school might or family relatives,

or dropouts, or, or good kids at times me and for wednesday night is punishment, fails to act as a deterrent. when i got out of joe, within 2 weeks, i was back to doing the same stuff that i was doing because i tried to find the draw but tried to do something good and i just gave up. i was just so used to leaving the sun life still after a year in prison and still on parole. westy is back into dealing drugs in the city to become a slave, to the club, to the customers and to the money and just takes your mind to solve your power, your energy, and you're going to control of it's, you've made this to for make money and fast way and it consumes, you knew what i was doing was illegal and on you that

more time to get quotes. funding to come. westy is court and his sentence to another term in prison. but while he's in jail, he writes down his life story as a warning to young people not to follow his path in climb ah, back in south west sydney. it's a law abiding lebanese is training people who are now faced with picking up the pieces of their shattered community. ah, say, fell disgusted by the way it was. criminal element was in the community have being conducted themselves. the community involved. there were victims of all these elements. there were victim of the gang rapers. there were victims of the media,

were victims of the politician. there were victim of police. hark at the time that didn't know how to react it. the over whelming feeling was disgust, buzz, communities feel, and i have no recourse, no protection. so they become cynical, angry, depressed multiculturalism as it were. took this horrendous kick to the stomach already reeling. any hope of recovery is knocked out by world events. nobody could have predicted without warning, lebanese astronomy and suddenly have the greatest challenge as our best railey and a brand of the enemy within and the community faces a new threat. after september 11th over the young people have been under

a different kind of feeling. it's no longer the get rich, quick no longer the rock. it's even worse than that. was a religious radicalization. next time on, once upon a time in punch bowl, why i've been the 1st train in in history is prosecuted under new laws designed to protect the nation from carry them. he wanted to belong. someone took him under his wing, taught him the wrong thing about the islam. you can call that radicalism and you can call it fundamentally ism extremism. i'd call it someone calling up a hill. and racism ran its ugly head as its training born. lebanese told to go back to where they came from. the last thing, if it's fair of a person who's just to see why they're running for their life along the boardwalk,

at that age. i think for those who are watching it is, how can i get to me in 2001 french around our australians accused of being enemies with them and attacking the way of life treated like we had all suspects. we were all under suspicion struggling to adapt to the new found home. out there explored the history of the lebanese community in australia. once upon a time and punched on out there. ah, ah ah,

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