You are missing something. Yeah, maybe the country should not be written off. Having never been there I can't judge either way. But one thing is clear from the articles that he pointed out. The fact that they were printed does NOT mean those things are not common. If is very clear they youths beating up bystanders is common and these cases were only reported because of the severity of the injury that resulted. How many other cases did the victim only get some bruises or a broken bone and recovered within weeks. Such stories would not get reported.
Some of the stories he talks about are merely outrageous rather than injurous (e.g., the "gay" horse). Therefore your theory is out the window on the first go. The fact that we are supposed to be outraged by these stories indicates how uncommon they are, and how they grate on our sense of justice. If our sense of justice was not provoked by these stories, then I'd be packing my bags for Australia. But they do, and so I'm not.
Ivan