Saturday, July 27, 2013

Australia sending refugees to Papua New Guinea, where they are abused and raped...

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Despite claiming to put the safety and security of immigrants first, Rudd’s agenda has since been entirely discredited by seismic revelations that emerged on Tuesday. Rod St George, former manager at G4S – the security outfit that bungled the job of policing the London Olympics and is now in charge of the deportation operation in Australia – revealed that, during their detention in PNG, immigrants are being raped and abused by fellow detainees with the full knowledge of the staff.

"There was nothing that could be done for these young men who were considered vulnerable, which in many cases is just a euphemism for men who have been raped," he said, speaking about the site that he worked at in Manus, a province of PNG. "They just had to stay where they were."

 That such a place should be considered appropriate permanent residence for some of the world’s most vulnerable people seems absurd – but apparently not to everyone. Earlier this year, VICE reported on the hellish conditions of the refugee detention centre in Nauru off the Australian coast – something that the government were fully aware of and seemed to condone. If opposition leader Tony Abbott is anything to go by, some parliamentary officials think immigrants deserve such treatment. That, in trying to protect their own lives and those of their families, these people – consisting largely of Hazaras from Afghanistan, Shias from Pakistan, Iranians, Iraqis, Kurds and Rohingyas, the stateless people of Burma – are behaving in a way that is “un-Christian”. Full story...

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