The Cronulla riots of 2005 were a series of racially motivated mob confrontations which originated in and around Cronulla, a beachfront suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Soon after the riot, ethnically motivated violent incidents occurred in several other Sydney suburbs.
On 11 December 2005, approximately 10000 people gathered to protest against recently reported incidents of assaults and intimidatory behaviour by groups of non-locals...
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The Cronulla riots of 2005 were a series of racially motivated mob confrontations which originated in and around Cronulla, a beachfront suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Soon after the riot, ethnically motivated violent incidents occurred in several other Sydney suburbs.
On 11 December 2005, approximately 10000 people gathered to protest against recently reported incidents of assaults and intimidatory behaviour by groups of non-locals, most of whom were identified as Middle Eastern youths from the suburbs of South Western Sydney. The crowd assembled following a series of earlier confrontations, specifically an assault on three off-duty volunteer lifesavers which took place the previous weekend. The crowd initially assembled without incident, but violence broke out after a large segment of the mostly Caucasian crowd chased a man of Middle Eastern appearance into a hotel and two other youths of Middle Eastern appearance were assaulted on a train.
The following nights saw...
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