#IAmWatching Manus
Nov. 8th, 2017 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyVia the Combined Refugee Action Group on Facebook, the Daily Telegraph (!) reports on conditions at the new accommodations: "Half-finished security fences, incomplete sewerage works and demountable buildings still to be secured — this is what is being offered to nearly 600 asylum seekers who are refusing to leave the closed down detention centre on Manus Island." They have photos of the incomplete accommodation, directly contradicting the Australian government's insistence that it's all ready and waiting. There's a lot of detail here which other media haven't reported - such as that roads used by local residents to reach their homes run through the new accommodations! (ETA: Peter Dutton doubled down on the falsehood.)
The Night We Tried To Save One Life Among Hundreds Of Starving Men (Huffington Post, 8 November 2017). Behrouz Boochani reports on the effort to get help for the refugee who collapsed with a heart attack. On Twitter, Boochani reports that the man has been seen by IHMS and forcibly sent to one of the new camps. According to IHMS, he requires treatment in Australia.
Greens Senator Nick McKim makes a critical point about the government's deceptions: "But the biggest lie of all is that the boats have stopped. On the Turnbull government’s own evidence, there are still turnbacks happening in the waters off northern Australia. We simply do not know how many boats have sunk and people drowned before they were noticed by Australian authorities. Or how many people have been forced back to the countries they are fleeing to face death, torture or persecution. All that has been achieved is the removal of the drownings from our television screens."
The Night We Tried To Save One Life Among Hundreds Of Starving Men (Huffington Post, 8 November 2017). Behrouz Boochani reports on the effort to get help for the refugee who collapsed with a heart attack. On Twitter, Boochani reports that the man has been seen by IHMS and forcibly sent to one of the new camps. According to IHMS, he requires treatment in Australia.
Greens Senator Nick McKim makes a critical point about the government's deceptions: "But the biggest lie of all is that the boats have stopped. On the Turnbull government’s own evidence, there are still turnbacks happening in the waters off northern Australia. We simply do not know how many boats have sunk and people drowned before they were noticed by Australian authorities. Or how many people have been forced back to the countries they are fleeing to face death, torture or persecution. All that has been achieved is the removal of the drownings from our television screens."
