Aussie Teen Charged For Murder Of Sudanese Refugee

February 7, 2007 8:53 a.m. EST


Sally Grover - All Headline News Contributor


Sydney, Australia (AHN) - A teenager has been charged over the murder of a 26-year-old refugee and student.
Geoffrey Taban moved to Australia from Sudan two years ago and was celebrating the completion of his first year at university when he was attacked by a group of teens on December 9.
The 18-year-old man repeatedly struck Mr Taban in the head. He died one week later in hospital with severe head injuries.
The accused was arrested yesterday in his parramatta home.
Acting Superintendent Beth Stirton, from Parramatta Local Area, confirmed that police will be investigating the incident.
The teen has been charged with murder and refused bail.
Mr Taban was studying economics at the University of New South Wales.

Poor, kid.
May he rest in peace:-?

Poor, kid.
May he rest in peace:-?

Ameen.

The Sudanese community in Australia is under extreme pressure and its members are being presented in the media as a disturbed group of criminals, although we all now the vast majority of them are honest hardworking people looking for a better life. The above crime, I would think is probably in retaliation to the media coverage of recent crime acts by Sudanese immigrants.

I can see the Sudanese community being selectively targeted by thugs and gangs driven by the media hype.

Rapist jailed for 24 years

January 30, 2007

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/01/30/hakeem_hakeem_narrowweb__300x328,0.jpg Artist's impression of Hakeem Hakeem in court.
Photo: Bettina Guthridge




A young rapist who attacked a 63-year-old woman and three teenagers in three days has been jailed for 24 years.
Hakeem Hakeem, 21, the father of a two-year-old boy, blinked, but showed no emotion when Justice Murray Kellam imposed sentence.
Justice Kellam said in the Supreme Court that Hakeem attacked his victims in violent and frightening circumstances.
One girl was raped by Hakeem and an unknown male assailant, and a teenage girl and boy were forced to have sex with each other after being subjected to threats and violence.
Hakeem also raped the girl in that incident.
The day before his last attack, Hakeem imprisoned, punched, slashed and raped the woman in her home, saying "Sorry Mum" to her before fleeing.
Justice Kellam fixed a 17-year minimum jail term for Hakeem, who would face a lifetime of reporting to authorities under the Sex Offenders Registration Act.
He said it would be up to the Adult Parole Board whether Hakeem was given conditional release after his minimum term ended. Hakeem has served about 22 months in pre-sentence detention.
Hakeem was found guilty of raping and falsely imprisoning a girl 16, who was attacked in a scout hall at Dandenong on March 10, 2005.
He pleaded guilty to charges related to the assault on the woman on March 11. They included rape, attempted rape, intentionally causing serious injury, aggravated burglary, false imprisonment and armed robbery.
He also pleaded guilty to five rape charges and two of intentionally causing injury regarding the March 12 offences against the boy and girl, both 16 at the time.
Justice Kellam said the crimes, which he described as horrific, violent and debauched, took place about a month after Hakeem arrived in Australia as a refugee from Sudan.
He acknowledged Hakeem's youth, and the violence that he, family members and a friend had suffered in Sudan and Egypt.
But he said Hakeem's background did not explain why "having come to the safety of this country, you within weeks so defiled innocent people who had done you no harm, and wished you no ill."
During pre-sentence submissions, Justice Kellam was told that scientific analysis of material from each of the three crime scenes matched Hakeem's DNA profile.
On March 10, the teenager was hit with cardboard tubing, bitten on the mouth, threatened with a piece of wood and was being choked.
Prosecutor Michele Williams, SC, said during the earlier hearing that the 63-year-old begged Hakeem repeatedly during the March 11 attack to take her to hospital. She said Hakeem hit the woman with a flurry of punches, bit her and eventually raped her, despite her struggles. He also slashed her throat twice with a knife he found in the premises.
The woman was in hospital for 11 days after the attack, and had injuries including a fractured eye socket, cheekbone and nose, multiple bruising, throat cuts and a stab wound to the back.
Ms Williams said Hakeem, in the March 12 offences, punched both teenagers, and used a razor blade to cut off the girl's clothing. Hakeem threatened both young people with the razor blade, and hit both with a half-brick.
He forced the girl to perform oral sex on the boy, then alternated between having sex with her, and forcing the boy to have sex with her. Ms Williams said the teenagers participated through fear.
Friends of the girl eventually came to the building and confronted Hakeem, allowing the two victims to escape.


theage.com.au

Sudan refugees face quota cut over gang claims

By Lincoln Wright
February 04, 2007 12:00am
Article from: http://www.news.com.au/images/sources/h14_sundaytelegraph.gif</IMG> (http://www.sundaytelegraph.news.com.au/?from=ni_story)



AUSTRALIA'S refugee quota from Sudan is likely to be drastically cut after the failure of many African refugees to integrate into local society.
Federal Cabinet will soon consider a proposal from Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews to reduce the total intake of refugees from Horn of Africa nations. The proposal follows a federal review of the Sudanese refugee program as community concern grows in regard to the behaviour of the refugees on Australian soil.
Australia's humanitarian program has allowed thousands of Sudanese refugees to come to Australia in recent years.
However, there are growing doubts about the wisdom of the decision, especially with the rise of gangs of Sudanese youths and drunk drivers.
Tensions in Tamworth over Sudanese refugees were set to ignite again, with two of the new arrivals pleading guilty to maliciously wounding a former co-worker last month.
Elfatah Yacub El-Haj and Mou Bol Alak admitted attacking two fellow refugees with a bottle and a hammer during a late-night home invasion in Tamworth last year.
A third Sudanese man, Mayan Achiek Toul, also intends to plead guilty to malicious wounding and assault.
Tamworth Council last year voted to reject a request to take further refugees from nations such as Sudan, Somalia and the Congo. At the time, Tamworth Mayor James Trelour said the city was struggling with the 15 refugees it already had, stating they were having problems assimilating.
Mr Andrews yesterday told The Sunday Telegraph Australia had one of the most generous humanitarian resettlement programs in the world at 13,000 a year.
Australia's new humanitarian policy would focus on settling refugees from the Asia Pacific region.

Australia will not reduce its total humanitarian intake

Drunk and driving

Neil Mitchell
February 01, 2007 12:00am
Article from: http://www.news.com.au/images/sources/h14_heraldsun.gif</IMG> (http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/?from=ni_story)


He knew what he was saying was dangerous and there was no way he would put his name to it.

But it had to be said: "The Sudanese kids are a real problem.
"You pull them over in the car. They are drunk. They don't have a licence. Some of them are only 14.
"You tell them they'll be charged and they laugh at you. At home, they'd be shot or beaten.
"Whatever we do to them just doesn't matter. The next day, there they are again, out on the road.
"Chances are they'll be drunk or off their heads on something."
At the time it seemed an over reaction, the words of a frustrated young officer working too hard at trying to do the right thing.
But a check with his superiors confirmed his message.
There was and is a serious and continuing problem with unlicensed and drunk driving among Sudanese refugees in Melbourne.
The courts have seen the bloody evidence. Remember Taban Gany?
In May 2005, 18 months after arriving from Sudan, he got drunk and drove his car into a Dandenong school yard, injuring six children.
He had been caught drink driving twice before. He had no licence.
But this problem does not end on the roads.
There is now increasing evidence of a culture of violence imported to this country with some refugees.
There is no point dodging around that fact for fear of being called racist.
Obviously, not all Sudanese refugees are bad people. Most are not.
And those charged with offences are innocent unless proven guilty.
But it is equally obvious that there are specific problems around some of these people.
These problems are now recognised by police, youth workers, politicians and the Sudanese community itself.
It is too easy to blame the perpetrators. Of course, they carry ultimate responsibility for their actions, and must be punished.
But we need to look also at the system that brought them here and the way that system copes with them and protects the rest of us.
The case this week of Hakeem Hakeem brings this into focus.
One month after arriving in Australia this man pumped himself full of alcohol, injected amphetamines, and inhaled paint.
In separate incidents, he then repeatedly raped two 16-year-old girls, bashed and raped a 63-year-old woman in her own home and terrorised a 16-year-old couple, forcing them to have sex while he watched.
For all that, Hakeem Hakeem was sentenced to 24 years in jail with a minimum of 17 years.
There is now debate about whether he should serve that time or be deported back to the hellhole from which he fled before he abused our kindness.
But wait. How did this man get into Australia? You don't develop a serious drug problem within weeks.
He clearly brought it with him and should never have got through the system that supposedly filters refugees.
New minister for Immigration Kevin Andrews agrees and has begun an inquiry. He also believes this man should serve his time before being deported.
But that leaves two questions. How many potential rapists, drunk drivers or lunatic gang members, Sudanese or otherwise, are being imported through a determination to be compassionate?
And how far does that compassion stretch before it snaps into a backlash?
To her credit, chairwoman of the Sudanese Communityof Victoria Shroug Mohamed does not dodge the problem.
She admits drunk driving and unlicensed driving is a big issue in the community.
While she is appalled by the crimes of Hakeem Hakeem, she argues it would be inhumane to deport him and suggests violence can spring from people who have spent long periods in refugee camps, or in battered countries such as the Sudan.
"There is trauma and we can't deny the post trauma reaction after they come here", she said.
"We must recognise that the journey has been hard.
"The implication of this journey could be to make people prone to be violent, specifically if they do not have the right care when they come to Australia."
History might not support her.
The thousands of victims of the Nazis who fled to Australia after World War II had lived through the horror and violence of orchestrated mass murder and the torture of concentration camps.
Their trauma could hardly have been more extreme but how many turned to rape?
How many joined gangs and roamed the streets looking for ethnic warfare?
There are now about 18,000 Sudanese living in Victoria. Many are easily identifiable and therefore easy targets for the racially based criticism that some ratbag Right-wingers are eager to inflict.
But there is a problem and evidence of it is not racially based or simply anecdotal.
Youth worker Les Twentyman has identified it and calls this a "divided nation."
The Police Association has identified it and describes the Sudanese trouble makers in particular as being "lawless."
Now, even the community has identified the problem, and called for help.
This is urgent, and must be treated as such.
It is not enough to say that a violent drug taking rapist has "slipped through the system", as Mr Andrews describes it.
The system must be tightened. It is not enough to say the Federal Government is "putting in place" programs to help these people avoid breaking the law.
That does not help Hakeem's victims. But it is reassuring that after barely 24 hours in the job, Kevin Andrews has had several briefings on problems in the Sudanese community and is already willing to describe them as "unique."
How he reacts is crucial. For the right reasons, this Government welcomed these people to Australia, but it must now recognise it has imported with them an unexpected degree of dislocation, violence, and danger.
Obviously, the rapists, drunk drivers and street thugs must face punishment.
But government policy has caused this danger. It must find answers.

Al7asil shino ya abshanab fe australia?what are the motives behind these attacks?
Are they in retaliation to previous attacks by locals or what?Sounds horrific and very unlike sudanese in anycase

Al7asil shino ya abshanab fe australia?what are the motives behind these attacks?
Are they in retaliation to previous attacks by locals or what?Sounds horrific and very unlike sudanese in anycase

Ya Shambati this is turning real nasty.

As far as I can tell, it started with a few isolated crimes commited by sudanese immigrants, the most horrific of which was the rape and attempted murders commited by Hakeem Hakeem (see above).

However, the reaction of the Australian community and indeed the government was very irrational to say the least. The media seems to incriminate the whole sudanese community in Australia and the government is now considering limiting the quota of Sudanese immigrants. Such news will definatley reflect on the general australian public and many of them have already started to select sudanese immigrants for hate crimes.

It is really sad to see the poor people escaping war and persecution seeking a better life face such misery.

Sudanese Gangs in Melbourne






Richard Kerbaj from The Australian newspaper claims that refugees are "turning to crime for kicks" on the streets of Melbourne--In particular the Sudanese.
A guy called Akoc A. Manhiem is a Melbourne-based Sudanese leader. He heads the "Sudanese Lost Boys Association of Australia support network". Manheim is reported to have said that "young members of his community - many of whom had served in the militia in their war-torn homeland - were finding it difficult to make the transition to the Australian way of life".

There are nearly 24,000 Sudanese people in this country--nearly 9,000 of those are aged between 15 and 24. These are the ones causing most of the problems. Manheim goes on to state that "most of the young people have grown up thinking that their role models are good fighters ... because (they've) grown up in a violent country..."

The fighting is common, it's true. The young people fight," Mr Manhiem said.
He admitted that some young members of his community also refused to co-operate with police.
The Australian revealed yesterday growing concerns among police about the emergence of militant African street gangs in Melbourne's suburbs.
Of most concern was the militia training many of the young migrants had undertaken in their homelands.
Sudan has been ravaged by a brutal civil war centred on the western region of Darfur over the past three years.

Political Correct doesn't apply to Sudanese community because they don't beheaded those who are negative to them. If you behave like others communities by killing those who are critical to them, you earn the respect.

Can any Australian dare to say that he/she will cut immigrants to muslims who blew up more than 3 Hundreds Australians in Bali? of course not.

It is not as if Australians don't know what 'crime' is. They are descendants of criminals who committed genocide on the Black Australian Aboriginals to the point of reducing a population that would have been in the tens of millions of Blacks in Australia today.

Britain sent all their worse criminals to Australia and when they arrived, many of them took to hunting Black Aboriginals like animals. There were about 500,000 to 1,000,000 Blacks in Australia in the 1700's. By the early 1900's, there were only about 50,000 left, and many of them were mixed with the whites who 'ginned' many Black Aboriginal women. ( See http://www.aboriginalaustralia.com

The sad history of BLACKS IN AUSTRALIA, WEST PAPUA AND EVEN ALL OF SOUTHERN CHINA is one that EVERY SUDANESE AND EVERY BLACK PERSON SHOULD KNOW.

The fact is, EAST AFRICANS HAVE BEEN IN AUSTRALIA, NEW GUINEA, SOUTHERN CHINA, MELANESIA CONTINUALLY FOR OVER 10,000 YEARS.

Read, "The Black Untouchables of India," by VT Rajshekar also read, "Susu Economics," pub. by http://www.AuthorHouse.com (according to the Copyright laws - a person can quote a few passages in a book to present in an essay or other work).

See also, "A History of the African-Olmecs: Black Civilizations of America From Prehistoric Times to the Present Era," pub. by http://www.AuthorHouse.com

AS LONG AS SUDANESE DO NOT RESPECT EACH OTHER -- OTHERS WILL NOT RESPECT SUDANESE -- NO MATTER WHAT LANGUAGE OR RELIGION THEY ARE

The fact is, SUDAN'S PURE BLACK AFRICAN PEOPLE ARE MASTERS OF CIVILIZATION ON THIS PLANET. Yet, how many know or care? If the tall, Blackskinnd, pure Nilote or Manding-Cush (Niger-Kordorfanian) Sudanese are the CLASSICAL MASTERS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION, BUILDERS OF EGYPT, BUILDERS OF CUSH, MESOPOTAMIA, INDESU VALLEY CIVILIZATION AND THE FIRST PEOPLE TO SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD BY SHIP ( see http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/runoko.html )

HERE ARE FACES OF CUSHI (PURE BLACK AFRICAN SUDANESE) IN ANCIENT AMERICA

http://originalblacksofamericabeforecolumbus.blogspot.com

It is rather shameful that many of us are more concerned about the culture of people who began to be civilized during the Middle Ages. Europe began to rise up about the 1400's AD, after they copied how to make sea-sailing ships from the Black Almohads (Black Moors who were in America before Columbus and were part of the Manding civilization continuation from ancient and prehistoric times).

SOUTH SUDAN, KORDOFAN, NUBA MOUNTAINS REGION, PURE BLACK NUBIANS (NO FOREIGN BLOOD), DAFUR -- ALL OF PURE BLACK CUSHI SUDAN MUST UNITE

A powerful East African Union including a strong and REUNITED Manding-Cush (Manding being the original Sahara civilization) and related people has to be created. By so doing, THE PURE BLACK PEOPLE OF EAST AFRICA WILL REVIVE CUSHITE CULTURE AND REVIVE THE MANDING-CUSHITE CULTURAL WORLD, FREE OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE AND FOREIGN DOMINATION.

The people who are looked down in Australia are TALL, PURE BLACK SUDANESE -- SUCH PEOPLE IN THE US ARE WORSHIPPED AND ADMIRED AS 'THE GREAT PEOPLE OF CUSH.'

To be tall and darkskinned in America is a glorious characteristic -- SINCE IN THIS TIME, MOST AMERICANS HAVE LEARNED TO AND GOTTEN ACCUSTOMED TO SEEING VERY DARK PEOPLE AND THE IDEA OF SOUTH SUDANESE, DAFURIANS, KORDOFANIANS, BEJA, DINKA, NUER, MANDINKA AND MANY AFRICANS BEING A PURE RACE - FACINATES MANY PEOPLE.

Finally, as one who loves historical epics, and ancient movies about great civilizations - as one who studies African culture -- it is rather disheartening to see HOW LOW THE GREAT 'MIGHTY ETHIOPIANS' (PURE BLACK SUDANESE) HAVE FALLEN.

Yet, expect parasites to continue trying to gain African resources.

While the Australians accepted a few Sudanese in the beginning, Australia has a history of racism and genocidal attacks on Black people.

Sudanese PURE BLACK CUSHITE PEOPLE MUST ORGANIZE TO RETURN TO THEIR FORMER GLORY.

PERHAPS SOUTH SUDAN WILL LEAD AN ERA OF GLORY FOR SUDAN, AFTER ALL HAVE RECONCILED AND OVERCAME THEIR5 DIFFERENCES.



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