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With tears streaming down his cheeks, Nyawech Fouch remembers the day his cousin was killed by two men in a random, racist attack in southeastern Melbourne more than a decade ago
. "They took our anger against some of us" and then they went to attack my cousin, "she told hundreds of protesters outside the Melbourne headquarters on Channel 7.
Saturday's protest and political commentary against Australians in Africa , especially the charges of Sudanese youth gangs in Melbourne
Ms. Fouch's cousin Liep Gony, 18, died at the hospital in 2007 after being wounded in the head. Death on a Nature Band of Noble Park.
The 21-year-old said that she forgave the two white men who killed her cousin, and "every person who ever stereotyped a black man" , asking people to "Please let us live our lives in peace."
Gony's mother, Martha Ojulo, also burst into tears saying that he was killed "because he was black".
Titan Debirioun, 19 years old people to give them back their identity in as human beings, not as criminals.
"I am more than my color and see that it has been removed, and this picture has been portrayed who I am, who my brothers are, and … the parents are … their identity has been removed, we are now judged as a black community, "he told the crowd
" The damage this causes to our community is inconceivable.A wider Australian community to see the suffering we are going through and Understanding Pain
"All we want is going to this society, to show who we are as a people and … not lazy journalism," said Mr. Debirioun.
Another young man said, "Let us show you that we are more than what the media describes."
Do not measure us in skin color. If you are going to talk about crime and you are going to put our name on it, you can go to any Melbourne train station, go around the corner, and see any nationality that is capable of committing a crime, "he said. young man to the crowd. Docklands
Federal politicians, including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, weighed in on the criminal gangs in Melbourne, pointing to the Sudanese people
after Laa Chol's death last week. The Melbourne CBD apartment, a crime that Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has linked to gang activity.
"We have people in our community who are doing the wrong thing, but it's like any other community". "Having your boss, people in positions of power in politics … to isolate my community and say something … it's not true, it's hurtful. I am disappointed with the leadership in our country. "
Event organizers said" let's say Channel Seven is enough "and" we are students and leaders, not African gangs "before walking near the Channel Nine headquarters in Melbourne.] Initially published as calls to to change the Sudanese media coverage
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