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Sri Lanka boat people choose return over Australia asylum
Saturday, 22 September 2012 - 10:08 PM SL Time
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A group of Sri Lankans have chosen to return to their homeland rather than apply for asylum in Australia, where they faced being sent to a Pacific island for processing, the government said Saturday.
Canberra has begun sending boatpeople to the tiny state of Nauru, and intends to ship others to Papua New Guinea`s Manus Island, as a disincentive to stem a record number of arrivals making the dangerous sea journey to Australia.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said 16 Sri Lankan men who were eligible to be sent offshore were voluntarily returning home and left on a flight from Christmas Island to Colombo on Saturday.
`These individuals chose not to pursue asylum claims and face transfer to a regional processing centre in Nauru or Papua New Guinea, and instead chose to return home voluntarily,` Bowen said.
Conditions on Nauru are basic, with the government still building permanent accommodation. Most asylum seekers are likely to spend their first months housed in tents.
Canberra has insisted that asylum seekers arriving by boat will gain no advantage in paying people-smugglers to bring to them Australia.
The government says they will have to spend the same amount of time on Nauru or PNG as they would have waited had they had their refugee status confirmed through official channels.
Bowen said transfers to Nauru would continue and warned that people-smugglers were `selling lies` if they were telling would-be refugees a visa would be available to them once in Australia.
`People who pay smugglers to risk their lives on a dangerous sea journey are throwing their money away, as demonstrated by the speedy return of this group,` he said Saturday. `People arriving by boat will be sent to Nauru and Papua New Guinea.`
Australia is battling to stop an influx of asylum seekers arriving by boat after scores of drownings en route.
The new policy was introduced after a flood of boatpeople this year, with some 10,000 arriving so far, many of them Afghans, Iraqis and Iranians who have paid people-smugglers to ferry them from Indonesia.
About 2,000 of these have arrived since the government announced the policy change in mid-August, with another boat carrying 17 people picked up west of Christmas Island on Friday.
Bowen said the first transfer to a home country was `a significant step`.
`It`s a sign that people are obviously weighing up their options and that they have been misled by people smugglers,` he told reporters.
`This is about talking to people about their options and people deciding that return was a better option than being processed under the new arrangements.`
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Jag1
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 22 Sep 2012 17:17:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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The world can see how stupid these people are..
they have proved their own claim of ''sri lanka is not safe'' is baseless....
so what happens to the terrorist sympathisers in down under who sponsored their trip via indonesia..?
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22 Sep 2012 18:07:15 GMT Report for Abuse
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The Australians are stupid. Do they not realize that these are economic refugees? Tamil disapora promotes this, and apparently even pay money to those who make this dangerous trip. Aussies think they are being discriminated. Let them have those who want to move there.
Now, I wonder what the Fake Russian, who is now leading the anti-sri lanka effort has to say about this? |
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22 Sep 2012 18:39:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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Mr. Brown,
You are acting like that Asanga Senevirathne, the New Owner of the Sunday Leader.
Country's Best Defiant Journalist is requested to leave the Post, and you are still talking about Refugees!
Why you act in this way ? Why you forgot to be with Mrs. Janz at a time, where we see a Media Monopoly organized by the WHITE VAN MURDERER Aka Dog Prince (Mad Dog) Gotabaya Rajapaksha ?
Edited By - SimpleMinds - 22 Sep 2012 18:44:00 GMT |
NeverAgain
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22 Sep 2012 18:53:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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Why you act in this way ? Why you forgot to be with Mrs. Janz at a time, where we see a Media Monopoly organized by the WHITE VAN MURDERER Aka Dog Prince (Mad Dog) Gotabaya Rajapaksha ?
Simpleminds, this is too simple an explanation. Mrs. Janz may be brave but she made lot of mistakes it seems. She has a personal grudge against Gota it looks like. |
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22 Sep 2012 19:05:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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Why you act in this way ? Why you forgot to be with Mrs. Janz at a time, where we see a Media Monopoly organized by the WHITE VAN MURDERER
That is what democrazy is all about.
SEe USA talk about Democrazcy crap. But they did not like JUlian Asange revealing their embassy secrets.
Fredrica was using her pen against the people that she did not like because of personal reasons. Otherwise, she did not do anything democratic or brave.
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22 Sep 2012 19:08:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sri Lnkan govt became dumb chicken and listened to western propaganda.
Western countries need migrants to keep their economies run at the rate want it. But, they want to control and subjugate migrants too. When Refugees go, govts have to help them a lot economically. that is what they don't like and complain against third world countries.
It was stupid to stop Tamils leaving to Australia when every Tamil migrated to Australia was taken into the country. So, they keep on leaving Sri Lanka.
Edited By - AnuD - 22 Sep 2012 19:12:27 GMT |
SimpleMinds
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22 Sep 2012 19:12:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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they did not like JUlian Asange revealing their embassy secrets.
Julian Assange is a Bloody Traitor who seriously damaged USA defence by publishing many inter government communications.
That is a Ba$tard Mather Faker similar to Our Own Traitor Sarath Fonseka. They deserve that Russian Polonium Cocktail before they bite the dust!.
Don't Compare Mrs. Janz with Those Traitor Mother Fakkers!
Edited By - SimpleMinds - 22 Sep 2012 19:15:08 GMT |
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22 Sep 2012 19:53:13 GMT Report for Abuse
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The world can see how stupid these people are..
Hak hak hak
I tied myself....I beat myself.......almost to death!!
ganja kiri! |
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22 Sep 2012 19:55:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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That is a Ba$tard Mather Faker similar to Our Own Traitor Sarath Fonseka
Ungrateful four legs animal! Think little bit if you have a brain before writing!
Who saved your country from ruthless animals ?????
Edited By - charlie1965 - 22 Sep 2012 19:57:12 GMT |
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