More than 450 policemen, four times the usual number, will patrol Sydney's streets on Tuesday to prevent a third night of racial violence by youth gangs who have attacked people, smashed cars and hurled rocks at police.
More than 450 policemen, four times the usual number, will patrol Sydney's streets on Tuesday to prevent a third night of racial violence by youth gangs who have attacked people, smashed cars and hurled rocks at police. Officials also said the state parliament of New South Wales (NSW) was being called into emergency session on Thursday to give police special powers to "lockdown" parts of Sydney, Australia's biggest city, to stop the unrest. REUTERS/Will Burgess

It happened on Tuesday. 22-year-old James Rajasurirar went for a walk in Chipping Norton, south-west Sydney. He couldn't complete his walk, though.

A glowering collection of men loomed large with metal batons and baseball bats. They attacked him on the head and left him on the street with a huge fracture on his skull. James had been walking with a group of friends that included two quarrelling girls. But soon a gang joined and began to attack them early on Tuesday. All the friends were beaten with bats and poles. James swooned and fell, but continued to get beaten up.

His skull and ribs got fractured, neck got injuries and even the kidney got damaged, according to Daily Mail.

His mother, Carol Rajasurirar, joined Detective Inspector Dean Johnstone, Crime Manager, Liverpool Local Area Command, to ask the public to come forward and report on the attackers, according to news.com. "I just want whoever did this to own up to it and stop being cowards," she said. Pointing out that as he was hit on the back of his head, he could not even venture to protect himself.

She was amazed that anyone could do this to someone who had never harmed anyone. The sight of her son hooked to tubes, and with his eyes firmly shut, was tough for her. "That's the last thing you ever want to see," she said. She told reporters in news.com today that she wanted to "give him a cuddle."

No one has a clue as to what exactly was the point of the dispute. The police reported that they had got some information from the two groups aged between 17 and 27, who had been accompanying James.

However, this is not the first or last of attacks. It is just one of the searingly violent events that are scouring the country.

For instance, in Melbourne, earlier this year, one woman was raped in an alley by five men after they tied her up. Earlier, another woman from China was hounded into a park and killed. A woman called Renea Lau was killed when she walked to work. Citizens of New South Wales are being dragged out of vehicles and in Sydney one man assaulted eight women in the streets of the city.

Violence seems to be getting closer, as the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows. Even leisure spots, shops and companies, too, are increasing, although violence on streets and footpaths are reducing.

Strangely, people's own homes are the most dangerous. Over 60 percent of sexual harassment and 53 percent of murders are perpetrated even in domestic environments. Those who are above 18 years avoid walking or riding on transport alone in the night.