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The curse of
multiculturalism
Lebanese youth pack-rape
young Australian girls in racially motivated attacks
August 26, 2001
Over the past 12 months
gangs of ethnic men and youths have pack-raped at least 50
victims in Sydney's south-western suburbs. The perpetrators have been
described as Muslim youths who are either Lebanese-born, or Lebanese
Australians. The victims have all been young Caucasian girls, one as
young as thirteen.
The pattern is similar in
all attacks. A girl is enticed by one or two men, whose cohorts joined
then and then brutally raped her. The victim is often subjected to
racial taunts. One was told: "You deserve it because you're an
Australian".
Last August, an 18-year-old
woman was allegedly raped 15 times by 14 youths who passed her from one group of mates to another after she was lured from a train at
Bankstown
station. Assaulted by four of the pack in a toilet, the woman was
driven to further locations, raped repeatedly and, as final act of
humiliation, sprayed down with a hose.
According to NSW Police
Commissioner Peter Ryan, the series of attacks is a new and shocking phenomenon
probably without precedent in Australian criminology. Mr Ryan
said the tension in the city's west was to some extent a by-product of
Sydney's huge recent immigration. "This is the largest immigrant
population of mixed races in the world. It's going to be extraordinarily
difficult to settle that melting pot down", he said.
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