http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/superdome-a-hellhole-aussies-tell/2005/09/03/1125302782219.html"We put all our luggage in the middle and the girls sat in the middle with the boys around the outside."Nobody really slept at night. The boys stayed awake watching as we were afraid the generator would go out and it would be total darkness again. That is when the rapes happened."..."We stopped queuing up for food as we were too scared. The boys in the group said not to go anywhere by ourselves but to go with them.On the fourth day, a National Guardsman got the Australians out of the Superdome and rode shotgun over them as he moved them to the remains of the battered Hyatt Hotel."I haven't been to hell, but now I think I saw it inside that stadium," Anthony "Bud" Hopes, 32, of Brisbane, said...."The girls were in real danger. We knew we had to stick together. We were a minority group inside a stadium with 25,000 people."There were gangsters, thugs, rapists, child molesters, anything you want to put in there, it was in there. They were molesting children that we saw. If girls from our group walked to the toilet they were felt up and filthy comments made to them. It was horrible, terrible...."At night it was so dark and there were people shouting and screaming. The stink was getting worse.
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