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Just a heads up, this contains some strong

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language. When

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I was a kid, my family owned

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a Chinese restaurant in the suburbs of Perth

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in Western Australia. But

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in the year I turned eight, something

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really strange happened. One

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of the owners of the Man Lin restaurant was

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rung at about two o'clock this morning and told

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that his business was in flames.

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Our family's restaurant was firebombed

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in the middle of the night. I really

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felt very scared and frightened. This

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was a targeted attack. The offenders had gone

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there specifically to torch

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that particular business. We

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had no idea that this was just the start

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of a story that would span decades.

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The police say they can't be sure that fires

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are linked, but admit the coincidence

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is highly suspicious. The numbers

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started escalating. They're seriously targeting

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Chinese

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restaurants. The latest attack

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happened just after three o'clock this morning. The

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number of Chinese restaurants was set ablaze. Oh,

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it's frightening. I'm

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Crispian Chan. My family

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was targeted as part of a series of terror attacks.

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One of the few sustained and coordinated

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terrorism campaigns in Australia's history. But

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you've probably never heard about any of this.

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A taste of terrorism we thought was not possible.

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It now became protection of life. There

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was chaos in Perth. Violence

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on the streets. They surrounded us

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and were just like, we're going to fucking kill you. They

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knew where we lived. It was a warning that they were

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sending to us. Perth's

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ninjas made themselves available on hotline. Some

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people would say that you're actually trying to take the

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law into your own hands. Our role is purely

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to help the underdogs. There

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were urgent diplomatic missions, buried

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weapons and stakeouts.

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The

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Premier flies out to Hong Kong this weekend.

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They were advocating a threat to democracy. He

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was under my skin, fluffing at the mouth. They

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said that they were going to blow my head off if

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I won the election. It sounds like there

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is a war going on. The firearms,

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the gunfire is

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unbelievable. I

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want to find the people who did it. I'm

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going to track them down. Who's

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on the other side of that fence? I don't know if he's

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going to talk to us. That's the

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track, OK.

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What the f...

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How does it feel for you to

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say sorry about

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your past?

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And I want to know if something like this could

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happen again today. The

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other day, he posted this to his account.

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You can't go anywhere, and you can't slow down.

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They're following

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a myth. There

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are all these stones that just need

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to be turned, and they haven't been turned.

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And there is a reason for that.

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We're still fucking around, and we're still

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here. We're fucking... We're

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still living our lives. Coming soon,

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Firebomb, the latest season of

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the ABC's Unravel Podcast. Really,

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really horrible things that happen to

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good people, even in a relatively

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peaceful

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place like Perth.