Neo-Nazis attack Sudanese refugees in Melbourne?
May 4, 2007 at 4:09 pm (activism, race and racism, refugees)
There’s a sketchy article about it in an IndyMedia Melbourne article (found through slackbastard.
That’s all I could find out about this, and insultadarity links to the same information.
According to @ndy of slackbastard it’s a troll/hoax. I can’t find anything else to support the story that it was neo-Nazis who perpetrated this.
I did find this story from the Herald Sun, which has a local councillor making it out to be race-related, but nobody else seems to be (except neo-Nazis themselves, who I won’t link to cos I just don’t need the hassle).
Others at IndyMedia are saying that it’s a case of manipulation because of the contestation over the Atherton Gardens housing estate.
The reason I believed it was:
This isn’t the first time Sudanese refugees have been targeted. At about this time last year, a Sudanese family’s home was fire-bombed in Toowomba, Queensland, and Macquarie University Law professor Andrew Fraser was helping neo-Nazis by spouting racist hate-speech against Sudanese people.
Ugh.
@ndy said,
May 4, 2007 at 11:41 pm
hi stumbles,
is an unlikely story: probably a result of trolling.
Fire Fly said,
May 5, 2007 at 10:19 am
Y’think so? It sounded pretty plausible to me…
sparx said,
May 7, 2007 at 7:21 pm
nothing went down on the night - nothing nazi - nothing anti-nazi - nothing - [that i witnessed anyway]
Anonymous said,
May 16, 2007 at 8:22 pm
I didnt hear about it. Though really if it did happen wouldn’t the media be all over it by now. It just seems like a distraction from the fact that the sudenese are causing huge problems in australia.
Fire Fly said,
May 16, 2007 at 8:26 pm
I very much doubt the media would be all over it by now. They’re not known for their capacity to castigate racists.
the sudenese are causing huge problems in australia
Um, what?
Though really, if that were the case, wouldn’t the media be all over it by now?
@ndy said,
May 30, 2007 at 11:48 pm
andrew fraser (the nutty professor) conts to talk racist dribble, & will be speaking @ the sydney forum in august. also, the supposed mtg was mos def a hoax, and most likely related to the close proximity of a neo-nazi pub, the birmy, & recent attempts to draw attn to a campaign to boycott the shithole — which efforts have caused some local fascist sympathisers to get a little upset, tired, and emotional.
on the birmy, see my blog &:
http://birmyboycott.wordpress.com
on andrew fraser:
http://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=375