The headline story in today’s printed version of The Age is an appalling, shocking tale:
He said the Immigration Department had put pressure on asylum seekers to return to Afghanistan when they were denied refugee status, telling them NATO was bringing peace to the country and they would never be let into Australia…
One of the men, Asmatullah Mohammadi, said 11 asylum seekers on Nauru had been killed by the Taliban after they were sent back to Afghanistan.
The director of social justice agency the Edmund Rice Centre, Phil Glendenning, who spent six years travelling the world to investigate the fate of rejected asylum seekers, said he believed 11 deaths was a conservative figure…
TOUR Gul travelled halfway around the world to escape Afghanistan. An enemy of the Taliban, he was convinced he was a target. But in 2002, Australia rejected his plea for asylum and sent him home to his death.
“He was worried. He knew the Taliban would kill him but the government refused him,” said his friend, Salem Haideri.
It has already disappeared off the main page of theage.com.au.
On the plus side, we kept the refugee numbers down that year.
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philiptravers // 3 April, 2009 at 10:22 pm
With Rudd going consciously trying to please Prince Obama the First about both Pakistan and Afghanistan where I think both nations are under attack from the U.S.A., the timing of this story seems part of the unhinged reality of media support for actions coinciding with the Prince’s thoughts on matters of the both countries. ”We will bomb them for their past indifference to us as their Superiors “, he said. Friend Rudd admiring the U.S.A. more since his jaw dropped in a photo-shot in the New York Stock Exchange convinced the Prince that was OK seeing a drone is very similar to a Cockatoo in Indonesia with Shaft, the musician.. playing in the background, so one can as a child prodigy wonder how the man created his music. If not a child prodigy.. a time traveller who knows how to please the Journalist Union persons of ABC Radio National. Having said all that, without mentioning the matter of Jews, of all things , I now can with Jeremy’s forebearance actually be on the subject whilst not appearing to be a jockey. Indeed, I was beside myself with anger at the time, with this man’s fate. It doesn’t change that, or, the fact, there must be more than one innocent Talibani from either Pakistan or Afghanistan being droned to death. It would seem that we have to await Prince Obama the First to realise he may not be over all the detail required to be morally engaged about the use of drones. Indeed it appears he also doesn’t know videos can be manipulated to make people seem alive and doing well being terrorist leaders [eg. Osama bin Laden]. Strange that, all he has to do as look at endless music related videos to see it being done. And a outsourced Intelligence organization wouldn’t feed the world crap if it was being paid to produce crap would it!? So how did this man’s family know without equivocation that the grenade throwers were Talibani…and from where!? Not that I would persecute the family by getting their evidence completely up to our requirements,but, that is bound to be the excuse of the ALP too.
karl // 6 April, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Immigration is hard work. You’ve got to keep out all the people you’ve bombed, because they might come after you. But you need cheap labour, so you’ve got to let some in. The best is “skilled immigrants”, white collars that end up doing menial work for a pittance, but are docile.
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