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This article is just TNB from start to finish.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3288197a11,00.html
Teen gangs force residents to flee
22 May 2005
By TIM HUME
Residents of a sout
h Auckland subdivision are selling their homes to escape machete-wielding teenage gangs.
Clashes between rival gangs in Manurewa's Glenveagh Park have seen children as young as 12 in armed confrontations fuelled by ethnic and territorial rivalries.
"There were iron bars, baseball bats, batons. There were ma
chetes and meat cleavers," Maori warden Freda Job said about one skirmish.
Complaints from fearful residents have prompted police, Housing New Zealand and Maori wardens to hold public meetings to address the problem. Volunteers have started a neighbourhood patrol, driving around the streets until 11pm each day and Black Power has also intervened in an attempt to calm matters.
"People are imprisoned in their houses, they're afraid to go out during the day, let alone at night," said Gerry Walker of the Salvation Army's south Auckland branch.
The feud arose this year between Samoan "Bloods" on Glenveagh Park Dr, and Maori "C
rips" on parallel Castlefinn Dr.
Residents - many of whom would not be named for fear of retribution - reported feeling under siege by the teenagers, who threatened them and vandalised their property. One woman had her tyres slashed and a Crips sign spray-painted on her house after she spoke out at a public meeting attended by police.
Her husband, like many others in
the street, had been stood over in his vehicle by a group of young people who refused to leave the road and let him pass. "Their words were: get out of our hood, you white bastard."
Teenagers set fire to the couple's fence at 3am, because "they reckoned they were cold". The couple are waiting for Housing New Zealand to move them out of the street.
Another couple said their children refused to sleep in their own rooms after their home was invaded and money and food vouchers stolen.
Iraqi refugee and Glenveagh Park Dr resident Badelio Yokhana said his cousin left his Castlefinn Dr
home after being badly beaten by teenagers he argued with about balls being kicked on his roof.
Another relative living nearby was kicked and beaten with an iron bar.
Former Castlefinn Dr resident David Hutchins sold his house this year because teenagers were fighting in his front yard with knives and bats.
Neighbourhood disputes often boiled over to involve parents, with weapons used. The Sunday Star-Tim
es spoke to two mothers who had clashed with hammers over an issue involving their children.
Housing NZ manages a third of the approximately 280 houses in the five-year-old subdivision, which includes a retirement village.
"We're scared," said one pensioner. "This is worse than Otara used to be. These are nice houses, only three years old, but they've got all the ratsh*t in them you could find."
The Star-Times spoke to children as young as nine wearing gang colours and claiming to have attacked their rivals with bottles and bricks. O
ne child was in trouble for taking a knife to his primary school on Thursday.
Job said the troublemakers' problems stemmed from poor parenting. One parent had helped conceal weapons used in a skirmish after police arrived.
Problems had lessened in recent weeks but she suspected the troublemakers were now in Manurewa township.
Manurewa police inspector Alan Shearer said police were getting on top of problems, which were partly due to the diverse ethni
c mix, and high turnover in Housing NZ homes.
"We're putting in a lot of effort with a lot of other agencies. We're not going to solve it overnight."
This article is just TNB from start to finish.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3288197a11,00.html
Teen gangs force residents to flee
22 May 2005
By TIM HUME
Residents of a sout
h Auckland subdivision are selling their homes to escape machete-wielding teenage gangs.
Clashes between rival gangs in Manurewa's Glenveagh Park have seen children as young as 12 in armed confrontations fuelled by ethnic and territorial rivalries.
"There were iron bars, baseball bats, batons. There were ma
chetes and meat cleavers," Maori warden Freda Job said about one skirmish.
Complaints from fearful residents have prompted police, Housing New Zealand and Maori wardens to hold public meetings to address the problem. Volunteers have started a neighbourhood patrol, driving around the streets until 11pm each day and Black Power has also intervened in an attempt to calm matters.
"People are imprisoned in their houses, they're afraid to go out during the day, let alone at night," said Gerry Walker of the Salvation Army's south Auckland branch.
The feud arose this year between Samoan "Bloods" on Glenveagh Park Dr, and Maori "C
rips" on parallel Castlefinn Dr.
Residents - many of whom would not be named for fear of retribution - reported feeling under siege by the teenagers, who threatened them and vandalised their property. One woman had her tyres slashed and a Crips sign spray-painted on her house after she spoke out at a public meeting attended by police.
Her husband, like many others in
the street, had been stood over in his vehicle by a group of young people who refused to leave the road and let him pass. "Their words were: get out of our hood, you white bastard."
Teenagers set fire to the couple's fence at 3am, because "they reckoned they were cold". The couple are waiting for Housing New Zealand to move them out of the street.
Another couple said their children refused to sleep in their own rooms after their home was invaded and money and food vouchers stolen.
Iraqi refugee and Glenveagh Park Dr resident Badelio Yokhana said his cousin left his Castlefinn Dr
home after being badly beaten by teenagers he argued with about balls being kicked on his roof.
Another relative living nearby was kicked and beaten with an iron bar.
Former Castlefinn Dr resident David Hutchins sold his house this year because teenagers were fighting in his front yard with knives and bats.
Neighbourhood disputes often boiled over to involve parents, with weapons used. The Sunday Star-Tim
es spoke to two mothers who had clashed with hammers over an issue involving their children.
Housing NZ manages a third of the approximately 280 houses in the five-year-old subdivision, which includes a retirement village.
"We're scared," said one pensioner. "This is worse than Otara used to be. These are nice houses, only three years old, but they've got all the ratsh*t in them you could find."
The Star-Times spoke to children as young as nine wearing gang colours and claiming to have attacked their rivals with bottles and bricks. O
ne child was in trouble for taking a knife to his primary school on Thursday.
Job said the troublemakers' problems stemmed from poor parenting. One parent had helped conceal weapons used in a skirmish after police arrived.
Problems had lessened in recent weeks but she suspected the troublemakers were now in Manurewa township.
Manurewa police inspector Alan Shearer said police were getting on top of problems, which were partly due to the diverse ethni
c mix, and high turnover in Housing NZ homes.
"We're putting in a lot of effort with a lot of other agencies. We're not going to solve it overnight."
