A fourth remote aboriginal community has been hit by violent unrest which has been spreading across the Northern Territory for the past fortnight.
The Northern Territory Police Force said officers were called to a home in Yuendumu, northwest of Alice Springs, on Thursday night after 30 people engaged in “disorderly behaviour”, resulting in a man suffering facial injuries from an alleged assault and three cars being damaged.
On the same evening police said a large disturbance occurred on Kolumboort Street in Wadeye, in Arnhem Land, a day after a man was shot with a crossbow during a fight between 15 people that was linked to a fight involving about 100 people, some armed with edged weapons, that broke out on Monday morning.
Police said up to 100 people gathered in the area, some armed with blunt and edged weapons, and three cars were set on fire.
A series of large brawls between up to 40 armed combatants have erupted in the remote aboriginal community of Ramingining in the Northern Territory.
At least one man appears to be armed with a spear.
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Officers arrested two men, aged 22 and 31, seized multiple weapons, and used OC spray to disperse the crowd, with Acting Senior Sergeant Jimmy Yengayenga saying: “Those involved in the hostile conduct will be held to account.”
In Yuendumu, Acting Superintendent Conan Robertson said the disturbance “was isolated to tensions between two families” and that police were engaging with the community to keep the peace, and a community meeting was held on Friday.
The remote community is the fourth, after Wadeye, Maningrida, and Ramingining to be rocked by large-scale violence since in recent weeks.
Clashes first broke out in Wadeye, one of the largest aboriginal communities in the NT and home to more than 2,000 members of more than a dozen clans, in early December on the eve of a No More march against domestic, family and sexual violence.
Hundreds of aboriginals then fought running battles in Maningrida in Arnhem Land between January 1 and January 4, and in nearby Ramingining up to 40 people fought with blunt and edged weapons, including spears, just before Christmas.
Header image: Left, a man show with a crossbow in a previous Wadeye disturbance. Right, the fight in Maningrida (supplied).
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