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Posted by Sigismund on September 15, 2008, at 6:25:22
The continual violence left many guards (62) with PTSD, with heaps of suicide attempts among them later. Watching the detainees sew their lips up with wire, watching the children hang themselves, the old men who dug their own graves a thousand miles from anywhere in the desert, all this and much more had a profoundly damaging effect on those poor bastards who were paid to enforce the government policy via (of course) a private contractor who bears the liability for their distress, rather than the government.
Thank you, John Howard.
That was your election victory.
That was what you made of Australia.
Posted by Partlycloudy on September 15, 2008, at 16:15:14
In reply to Australia's treatment of Refugees, posted by Sigismund on September 15, 2008, at 6:25:22
How utterly appalling.
Posted by Sigismund on September 16, 2008, at 3:22:42
In reply to Re: Australia's treatment of Refugees, posted by Partlycloudy on September 15, 2008, at 16:15:14
We watched it on TV last night. It was a program about the guards at the detention centres. I wasn't very interested in that and only watched it by chance. After it was over we looked at each other and said 'And that happened in Australia'.
I felt ashamed that I had done nothing to prevent it. Ashamed and angry as well. Many Australians voted for Howard when he said 'We will determine who comes to this country and the circumstances under which they come', and won the 1999(?) election over the Tampa affair. Many too (often people from the churches) did their best to shelter refugees, teach them English, find them jobs and so on. At the very last election a Liberal minister stated that Sudanese refugees were not integrating, and shortly after there was an attack on a Sudanese refugee.
Still, it wasn't just Howard. I think everyone knew that. It was what we had become....a less generous society. Howard just had a good feel for the times. Or so it seems to me.
Posted by Sigismund on September 22, 2008, at 3:42:21
In reply to Australia's treatment of Refugees, posted by Sigismund on September 15, 2008, at 6:25:22
More.........
I am so glad that there are Australians who feel strongly enough about this to put up a website.
After Tampa and the Children Overboard Affair there was, as I recall, the SIEV-X (suspected illegal entry vessel x) where 300 or more people drowned in unclear circumstances that evinced nothing at all from the electorate.
This is the end of the thread.
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