25 November 2017

Mr Turnbull, NOT IN MY NAME

Behrouz Boochani, Iranian Journalist and refugee imprisoned on Manus Island.


The wretched of the earth,
because they were no longer safe where they lived,
sought to come here.

With a determined cruelty,
we kidnapped and imprisoned them
in Pacific lagers. 


Australia built a hell for refugees on Manus. The shame will outlive us all. Richard Flanagan 


And if,
in these next few days,
any harm should come to Behrouz Boochani,
...
the responsibility for that crime
will not fall to the PNG government 
or its police.
It will be Peter Dutton’s.


03 November 2017

The Minister for Immigration and Border Protection

The people we Australians have put on Manus Island are seriously at risk

The Liberal Party members of The Parliament of Australia can make them safe.

In the name of humanity do it now - today.

 
Mr Dutton
You are making decisions on behalf of the taxpayers of Australia and your decisions are harming innocent and vulnerable men on Manus Island.
Please stop your harsh cruel policies and return food, water and protection to the men in the detention camp on Manus Island immediately!
This inhumane treatment has gone on long enough! It is time to give these men, and the families on Nauru, an opportunity for a new beginning in a safe environment. You must remove them from these tropical hell holes. Either bring them here to Australia or allow them to resettle in New Zealand. It is not acceptable to place them in the community where the locals do not want them and there is no protection for them.
If you must continue to turn back boats, so be it. But there is no justification for the mental and physical torture you have condemned the asylum seekers to on Manus Island and Nauru. They reached the shores of Australia and they are Australia's responsibility. They are not 'illegals'. They have committed no crime. All they are guilty of is fleeing persecution (not unlike Josh Frydenberg's mother).
If any harm comes to any of the men on Manus Island, you will be responsible.
 
Yours sincerely
 
Stewart Jackel
Melbourne.
Friday 3 November 2017
 
First Dog on the Moon says:

*Thank you to Nettythe1st in First Dog's Comments 3 November 2017