Refugee Update
Oct. 2nd, 2017 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easySri Lankan Tamil refugee found dead on Manus Island (GA, 2 October 2017) He had been formally found to be a refugee. He had been seriously mentally ill for months, and had survived a recent suicide attempt. The Refugee Action Coalition reports that adequate psychiatric care is not available on the island and two other detainees are in a similarly dangerous condition.
ETA: The refugee was due to face court over a sexual assault charge the day he was found dead. The failure to prevent his death means that there is now no chance his alleged victim seeing justice done.
Thank gods, some of the men from Manus have survived and are now starting their new lives in the US - hopefully just the very first of many more, despite Immigration Minister Dutton's bizarre attack on them."He has presided over torture," The Saturday Paper writes, "and he does not care." I assume Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop was trying to undo the damage he caused by explaining that the men were genuine refugees who had been additionally vetted by the United States.
ETA: The refugee was due to face court over a sexual assault charge the day he was found dead. The failure to prevent his death means that there is now no chance his alleged victim seeing justice done.
Thank gods, some of the men from Manus have survived and are now starting their new lives in the US - hopefully just the very first of many more, despite Immigration Minister Dutton's bizarre attack on them."He has presided over torture," The Saturday Paper writes, "and he does not care." I assume Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop was trying to undo the damage he caused by explaining that the men were genuine refugees who had been additionally vetted by the United States.
