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ah, in under the orders. if the police commissioner pays ryan $200.00 officers right. hello p. strange with the meteor in time with this stuff a lot. but it was only zeus. people who shot killed dealt was a drug who was against the move. ah, in the coming days, in rides across southwest 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 years before. before that it wasn't anything new to us. but you could

possibly be the i would lay metal would have woken up the police. and i'm glad that he did because suddenly change 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 lee fica stuff very intensely, very quickly on having enough of that 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 need would lima. and 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 gallery. in the drop by shooting of came a 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 white, really of attacking someone and trying to intimidate them and threaten them without having to confront them. certainly the shooting of came to a police station fitted into that category. ah, 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 lamp. this cancelled me like, you know, i'm dignity taught me how to respect others and accept them. and that's the most important part at the height of the atlanta phobia. naughty a sally is employed at the local government family support worker in southwest sydney. i was always organizing on christmas hampers and christmas toys for family

and children. i called one inclined and she said not here, would you mind if i ask you, where are you from? my said, why are you asking me? i'm from here. she said, no, no, no. what's your background as it only beneath she said, but she won't be muslim. you're not muslim, aren't you? i said, thanks god, i mom was in 2000 after immigrating during the lebanese civil war kala. 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 st. horrified by what they hear

and fortunately, heating the gunshots in early morning. the 1st shock was, i mean, later on we moved away from who we came. he said we looking for safety. and fortunately, as soon as he 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 inner grants then at night. will be a haven for drug dealing, a haven for meeting with prostitute would be just it wasn't

a place that you would want to raise a family. i'd have to admit we all are 78 years old on years old are on the real is that police will be they need 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 the police to come and told area and do more lie teak, as well as close this grand stand didn't. and after 6 months, every month it's the problem is in the school to get teased because by that put speed humps in every street in punch bowl

. it 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, both the gangsters, the thugs, with the fast cars, always want to speed down every street. they let them know, do not welcome in punch. but as the community works with the police, the hope is the media focused 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. just a few kilometers away. the liberty, the striving community is about to be outraged. i

start my shift early in the morning. there's been a suspected abduction and possibly a sexual assault of a young female. and 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, schooled at punch bowl boys high in 2000, even 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 he just got tissues on the, on the ground. and then i noticed an old gentleman why

corporation 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 in that situation, the father 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. later on, the information came out that it was part of a number of gang gripes that have happened and have were sitting 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 horrendous. now being that i've

got to, i'm the father of a young girl, it's just something that i can comprehend and i would never want to be in that and that father's position. and i went out to another me, the park in which happened was only a few houses up from what harris house being so close to home, the media and the police and the, 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 coupled lee 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 pattern of crime. a gang of teenagers is raping young girls using unusual and degrading violence. but because most of the accused under

18, their names are not made public. what is revealed is that they are all lebanese australian, not much happens about them until will after the olympics, when the, when the accused brought to court and suddenly the media rupture. what happened next is that there was an intense glare of media and public attention about what happened about the 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 unseen or unheard of unthinkable that people so local, so close to home could do something that terrible to somebody and think that they had a right,

to do that when the media storm erupt. 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 11 days moved from god because that's what they liked. and that's disgusting. the young women still just teenagers. i've really been 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 words that the silence used against. 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 lead

style the woods lib style flashed around the nation. suddenly, the lebanese is trailyn communities accused. right, the racial reasons. people to the court demonstrated that is responsible for these vicious signaling crimes. as liberties muslims identify themselves live in these muslims formed in the plan of attack as literally as muslims. belen jones introduces i new dimension. he moves from the notion which is more widely hill, about ripe. 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 all muslim man. across the

community, they were the threats received. they were missing just lift and little boxes. they were threats that muslim women would be dragged from the straits on. right. in revenge and walking streets. you absolutely looked at differently. you looked at as he could be another another, right? this delay could be part of that gang. oh, you know. and because all these guys came from the area i was living in the time it affected me even more. it's it shook my identity to the world. them and i knew who i was, but the world so me differently. we have all the all the right built in the lead you told that they were christian. catholics will do exactly. yes, i did. okay. we did not go right. anybody finally, the accused, a convicted and their names released. this is believe scave,

the man at the center of one of the nation's most notorious crimes for gang rape. the only thing of the suppression order was welcome you needed to be named 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, the gang rape on appeal. the sentence is reduced to 31 years and name at cooper li, believe 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 perpetrators of this type of behavior. when really what it said was victimized individuals in our

community, even 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, always self. i don't against old. the hate mail that we received, we went afraid we were just afraid at that time we didn't know what to do. i wasn't only live in ice, wasn't to experience that 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, or lack of

a community is under media. and as races, tensions increase to the police presence on the strength. the, the drug gangs of the most of the targets. but as the crackdown continued, the underworld drunk 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 immediately. ah, ah, hello straight punch bowl one time to feed needs most notorious gangs. the straight as returned to its old suburban life. most of these people are now in prison or enroll put symmetry. but like a virus, the drug trade spreads to other areas of the tv ah,

develop 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 came growing acura and those other areas to turn as many criminals as we could, me and punch bowl 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 everything goes back to normal. and then the next generation comes through, ah, and there is a young kids who are influenced by money and the, or of buying a big ta gangster or a criminal who hang around with these flags and the mentors in the board. to do this as a job, and unfortunately they could be school might or family relatives,

or dropouts, or, or good kids at times me. and for wednesday the societies punishment failed to act as a deterrent. when i got out a job within 2 weeks, i was back to doing the same stuff that i was doing because i tried to find the draw while i tried to do something good and i just gave up. i was just so used to leaving the fun lifestyle 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 the steps to the for make money and fast way and it consumes, you know 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, but back in south west sydney, it's a law abiding lebanese, a strong and people who are now faced with picking up the pieces of their shattered community. me say, fell disgusted by the way, zeus, criminal element was in the community have being conducted themselves. the community unfold, there were victims of all these elements. there were victim of the gang of writers . there were victims of the media were victims of as a politician,

there were victim of his heart at the time that didn't know how to react to it. the over whelming feeling was of disgust, bus community school, 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, this trillion suddenly have the greatest challenge. as arabic, aliens, a brand of the enemy within and the community faces a new threat. after september, different over the young people have been under different kinds of fluid.

it's no longer the get rich, quick no longer drug. it's even worse than that. was the religious that radicalization next time on. once upon a time in punch bowl, why has been the furthest train in history? is prosecuted under new law 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 the radicalism, you can call it fundamentally ism extremism. i'd call it someone calling up a hill and racism with its ugly head as its training born, lebanese a told to go back to where they came from. the last thing image there of, of a person who's just seems like they're running for their life along the boardwalk,

at the beach. i think for those who are watching it is, how can i get to the me in 2001 spread around very well. our australians accused of being enemies with them. and attacking the, the way of life were treated like we were 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 punch on our era. ah, ah

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