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Refugee Update: Manus And Nauru
Apr. 28th, 2016 05:26 pmManus Island detention centre to close, Papua New Guinea prime minister says (GA, 27 April 2016) "The mood is very strange because all the inmates are flipping between happiness and worry. Everyone is shouting, yelling and running around the compound. If they had wings they would fly without stopping."
Australian government faces potential claims of more than $1 billion after Manus Island deal implodes (SMH, 28 April 2016)
What will be the fate of the illegally detained asylum seekers? (The Australian government, evidently surprised by the PNG High Court decision, don't have a plan.) The refugees seem to have a non-choice between Papua New Guinea, a poor nation so dangerous that refugees have been trying to break back into the transit camp; continued indefinite detention on Christmas Island; and Nauru, currently in "chaos", where an asylum seeker has just set himself on fire (it took more than twenty-four hours to evacuate him to medical treatment) and where the Zika virus has arrived.
According to Wikipedia, Nauru currently has a population of about 10,000. What are the chances of their permitting 850 men to suddenly settle? I'd like to think that such an influx of fellow refugees might lend some safety to those already on the island, though there can be infighting between refugees of different backgrounds, and of course individual refugees sometimes victimise others under the lawless and high-pressure environment of the camps.
Australian government faces potential claims of more than $1 billion after Manus Island deal implodes (SMH, 28 April 2016)
What will be the fate of the illegally detained asylum seekers? (The Australian government, evidently surprised by the PNG High Court decision, don't have a plan.) The refugees seem to have a non-choice between Papua New Guinea, a poor nation so dangerous that refugees have been trying to break back into the transit camp; continued indefinite detention on Christmas Island; and Nauru, currently in "chaos", where an asylum seeker has just set himself on fire (it took more than twenty-four hours to evacuate him to medical treatment) and where the Zika virus has arrived.
According to Wikipedia, Nauru currently has a population of about 10,000. What are the chances of their permitting 850 men to suddenly settle? I'd like to think that such an influx of fellow refugees might lend some safety to those already on the island, though there can be infighting between refugees of different backgrounds, and of course individual refugees sometimes victimise others under the lawless and high-pressure environment of the camps.
