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Papua New Guinea court finds Australia's detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal (SMH, 26 April 2016)
!!!
There goes that plank of the Pazifiklösung*. What this will mean for the poor bastards we locked up there, heaven knows. (A swift resettlement in Australia after the federal election, I hope. They certainly don't want to stay in PNG.)
Say, this means Hamid Khazaei was illegally detained when he was killed by bureacratic bungling and the severe medical neglect to which Manus detainees are subject. So was Reza Berati when he was bashed and kicked to death.
I would love to think that a few small drops of sweat are oozing down the foreheads of certain politicians - not to mention certain former detention centre workers - at the prospect of the legal fallout of all this.
* I'm reading Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. It's really got in amongst me.
!!!
There goes that plank of the Pazifiklösung*. What this will mean for the poor bastards we locked up there, heaven knows. (A swift resettlement in Australia after the federal election, I hope. They certainly don't want to stay in PNG.)
Say, this means Hamid Khazaei was illegally detained when he was killed by bureacratic bungling and the severe medical neglect to which Manus detainees are subject. So was Reza Berati when he was bashed and kicked to death.
I would love to think that a few small drops of sweat are oozing down the foreheads of certain politicians - not to mention certain former detention centre workers - at the prospect of the legal fallout of all this.
* I'm reading Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. It's really got in amongst me.
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Date: 2016-04-26 02:21 pm (UTC)