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Australia refuses Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka
Thursday, 29 October 2009 - 1:11 AM SL Time
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Australian authorities have said 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers in Indonesia will not be taken to Australia, their intended destination.
The ethnic Tamil asylum seekers have spent 10 days on an Australian customs ship in Indonesian waters.
Indonesia agreed last week to take the group to have their claims examined, but local officials are refusing to allow the Australian vessel to dock.
Australia has been faced with a sharp increase in asylum seekers this year.
`There`s an agreement between Australia and the government of Indonesia that the people who were rescued in the open seas will go to Indonesia and be processed by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Indonesia,` Australia`s Foreign Minister Stephen Smith told ABC News.
`No choice`
On Tuesday, an Indonesian provincial governor stopped the Australian customs vessel Oceanic Viking from docking on Bintan island, near Singapore.
He said the island was not a `dumping ground` for refugees.
The Tamil asylum seekers were due to be taken to an Australian-funded detention centre on Bintan where other detainees have allegedly been beaten by guards.
The Tamils themselves have said they will not leave the ship voluntarily and have refused to co-operate with identity checks.
Mr Smith said they had no choice about where they claim asylum.
`They were picked up on the high seas. They were rescued on the high seas - it`s not their choice.`
The 78 Tamils are the latest in a flood of asylum seekers trying to reach Australia.
Indonesia`s navy also recently agreed to intercept another boat carrying about 250 Sri Lankans off the Java coast, who are currently refusing to leave their boat.
Human traffickers often use Indonesia or Malaysia as staging points before putting the migrants on boats for the hazardous voyage to Christmas Island, an Australian territory.
Australia receives just a fraction each year of what the UN estimates to be more than 15 million refugees globally, but the issue has split the country.
The opposition blames Prime Minister Kevin Rudd`s government for relaxing the country`s refugee laws.
Others criticise the government for not allowing the asylum seekers into Australia to have their cases examined.
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AnuD
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 28 Oct 2009 19:35:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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75 of those here, they live like criminals.
Walk with steel chains hanging from legs and hand-cuffed, heads closed.
Still better than peelam. |
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 28 Oct 2009 19:40:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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WHAT ?
Where is our Gaja Madam ? Is she still in Sri Lanka with Caritas ?
We need to write a letter to the Aussy PM, Obama, Queen, Bunk-key-moon, Mana mohana singhe, and all the others asking them to take these residentially challenged innocent people,..
They didn't go for money, they went to find a place to live, If they were looking for money, they could have gone to Tamil Nadu or Singapore, (Both are the same)
These people wanted an empty land, like a desert, and make it prosperous and live there,... Australia is the closest location for such a place,..
Please please,.. take them,.. We should start a Hunger strike in front of Australian Embassy, Sri Lanka, asking to take them to Australia....
I will sponsor for big macs from McDonalds... Who's jobless to start a hunger strike ? I can't do it, because I have lot of work to do.... |
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28 Oct 2009 19:44:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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There needs to be better headline articles in LNP
What could be your headline for this article ? |
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28 Oct 2009 19:52:41 GMT Report for Abuse
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I could only wish that Canada would take the same hard line as they do in Australia......the politicians here are more worried about votes than doing the right thing....what they don't realise is that the majority of Canadians are tired of these queue jumpers who won't go through the immigration process like every other person who immigrates to Canada....these guys want instant gratification......they have such a sense of entitlement....
Edited By - Bassa - 28 Oct 2009 19:53:35 GMT |
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 28 Oct 2009 19:57:01 GMT Report for Abuse
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Shoot those dogs on head let thew starve to death. I bet No one will care about those dogs. Those dogs will be proud to die with or without refugee status. |
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28 Oct 2009 20:18:30 GMT Report for Abuse
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There needs to be better headline articles in LNP19:41:34 GMT
What could be your headline for this article ?19:44:45 GMT
Its over a half an hour,...
Looks like Paroah malli is still looking for a headline,....
Lesson number 257
Never criticize something if you can't show a better alternative,... !
Edited By - Piyal - 28 Oct 2009 20:19:34 GMT |
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