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Though history had recorded public concern over bands of violent teen-agers ever since the beginning of the republic, the fear of "gangs" (a term coined in the 1930s) caught the nation's fancy.
Among reports from East Timor, the Sydney Morning Herald led its front page Friday with the murder of at least 14 Roman Catholic priests and nuns and the stabbing of the bishop of Baucau by pro-Jakarta militia gangs.
"The Chinese gangs are taking business from us in every area--in prostitution, in gambling, in fencing, in stolen goods," said one yakuza to New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof.
He had his troops burn down 70 percent of Serbian houses, passed laws to confiscate Serb property, and allowed gangs of Croat thugs to murder the few elderly Serbs who remained.
The law was written at a time when public housing complexes were under assault by drug-dealing gangs and politicians were pressured to take action.