sir prince duke alevine wrote on Dec 28
th, 2012 at 10:07am:
Maqqa wrote on Dec 28
th, 2012 at 9:58am:
Sub-section 2 is why they are detained!!
The asylum status is what they are applying for.
Until such time they are regularised/approved they are locked up!!
Note the words "coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened"
I was not aware that Malaysia was threatening their life or freedom
Malaysia is not signitory to the refugee convention. Malaysia doe not recognise any refugee rights, especially the right to work. So, yes they are threatening to their life and freedom. WHAT A DUMMY!
As for Section 31, it clearly states that only restrictions that are necessary be applied. Nauru is necessary for refugee processing? Says who? Also all facilities will be provided that are necessary - and yet they live in tents and you have another thread out talking about how the conditions are bugger**. and the restrictions will be for a reasonable time. 5 years is not reasonable time.
This is why, dummy, you need to read AND COMPREHEND, before posting garbage. You are such a dummy!!!
Correct - Malaysia is NOT a signatory to the UNHCR. However, our inept federal government was more than willing to send people to that country. Yes, Nauru wasn't a signatory during the Pacific Solution, but nor did they inflict corporal punishment on detainees either - unlike Malaysia's use of the cane.
As for Section 31, what is the problem? We can't have people wandering the countryside when we don't have any idea who they are. That's why they are detained and their identity and background checked. As far as living conditions go, while it isn't Club Med, it's not a UNHCR refugee camp in Ethiopia where disease is rife, sanitation unheard of, danger of camps being attacked exists daily and the accomodation is generaly whatever you can find to put over your head unless you're lucky to get what the UN charitably describes as a tent. They are nothing but thin nylon on a flexible frame, whereas the Australian tents are made from strong canvas and are well ventilated. The tents supplied by our Army in which detainees are accomodated is luxurious by comparison to UN tents.
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