Friday, June 3, 2011

Australian Asylum Seekers: Australia criticized over child asylum seeker plan!

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AP/ The Hindu.

In this file photo, people clamber on the rocky shore on Christmas Island, Australia, during a rescue attempt as a boat breaks up in the background. AP.
In this file photo, people clamber on the rocky shore on Christmas Island, Australia, during a rescue attempt as a boat breaks up in the background. AP.

Australia wants to deter asylum seekers from travelling to the continent by boat by sending hundreds of new arrivals to Malaysia. The Malaysian government has reached an in—principle agreement to take 800 off Australian hands in return for Australia resettling 4,000 registered refugees from among more than 90,000 languishing in Malaysia.
Australia came under fire from the U.N. children’s aid agency and human rights advocates on Friday over its plan to send unaccompanied child asylum seekers to Malaysia under a refugee swap deal being negotiated with the Southeast Asian nation.
Australia wants to deter asylum seekers from travelling to the continent by boat by sending hundreds of new arrivals to Malaysia. The Malaysian government has reached an in—principle agreement to take 800 off Australian hands in return for Australia resettling 4,000 registered refugees from among more than 90,000 languishing in Malaysia.
This is highly inhuman especially in the light of the fact that, '
Amnesty International said children without families, especially girls, would be targeted by gangs and officials in Malaysia'.

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