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URGENT: Stop the Neo-Nazi Violence

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To the Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw, Chief Commissioner of the Victoria Police, and all Australian government officials:

As citizens from around the world, we urge you to recognise the recent attack on Camp Sovereignty as a hate crime and to launch a full, independent investigation into police failures. We call on you to take decisive action to ensure such attacks never happen again.
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URGENT: Stop the Neo-Nazi Violence
Dressed in all black, they descended on a peaceful ceremony at Camp Sovereignty - a sacred site for Aboriginal communities in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. They beat women with metal bars, sending one to the hospital.

Eyewitnesses say the police knew the Neo-Nazis were coming but failed to act. When officers finally arrived, they pepper sprayed the victims - and despite the racial slurs and organised neo-Nazi violence, authorities haven’t recognised this as a hate crime.

This is racism, plain and simple - and Aboriginal leaders are demanding action to prevent it from happening again. We have just days: let’s all stand with Aboriginal communities against this attack and push Australia’s police chief to investigate this as a hate crime, before he steps down!



The picture shows Krauatungalung elder Robbie Thorpe, a founder of Camp Sovereignty. Source: AAP / Julian Smith

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