Ruth Skilbeck 26.2.2014
The horrific conditions of the Manus Island ‘indefinite’ detention camps were revealed by a former employee, Manus Island Migration Agent, Liz Thompson, who was witness to the attacks on asylum seekers, in an interview with Mark Davis on the SBS program Dateline yesterday evening in Australia,
The horrific conditions of the Manus Island ‘indefinite’ detention camps were revealed by a former employee, Manus Island Migration Agent, Liz Thompson, who was witness to the attacks on asylum seekers, in an interview with Mark Davis on the SBS program Dateline yesterday evening in Australia,
This was a brave interview, which revealed the horror of the
Manus Island non-processing indefinite detention camp using "horror"
as a "deterrent" to desperate asylum seekers, refugees and exiles
from war and conflict, already traumatised peoples, who are asking the
Australian people, whose nation is a signatory of the International Refugee
Convention, to give them shelter. This is what the elected government and their
industry management teams have come with as their idea of a response.
Watch
Liz's full interview here:
"It's
not designed as a processing facility, it's designed as an experiment in the
active creation of horror to deter people from trying in the first place"
-
Liz Thompson, Manus Island whistleblower.
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1 comment:
So enjoying your blog lately Ruth. Thanks so much.
The misery(s) we subject people to in the name of the nation state are astounding. I think that Teressa Hayter got it right in relation to detention. " I do not believe that immigration controls, including detention can be reformed. We should get rid of them like slaver, apartheid and other ills" The problem is we have not really gotten rid of those. Lets cut to the chase and get rid of the state.
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