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Gillard & the Australian government directly responsible for the tragic drownings off Java

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 18/12/2011 - 12:09pm

Media release by the Human Rights Alliance Australia owns significant responsibility for yesterday’s tragic sinking of another asylum boat off Java and of the many drownings. Australia should assist in repatriation, counselling and compensation of and for the survivors. The boat was carrying Hazara and Irani refugees. Ms Gillard's push for Indonesia to criminalise those assisting asylum seekers in the passage to our shores is directly responsibly for this sinking and drowning, and for people's desperation.

Neither Indonesia and Australia should be criminalising the seeking of asylum and people should be allowed to map out their journey openly, to travel with various public assistance and in seaworthy boats. The Gillard government has manifest the desperation that gives rise to unseaworthy boats and passage under the cover of the clandestine.
Related:Refugee Action Collective(Vic)Press Release -- Refugee Action Coalition (Sydney)Statement

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Refugees are welcome here! - Rally and march, Melbourne 5 November 2011

Submitted by peter on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 12:35pm

The Refugee Action Collective (Victoria)organised a rally and march reiterating demands for an end to mandatory detention and offshore processing. This came in the wake of two events: the High Court decision ruling the government’s intended Malaysia deal illegal, and the drowning deaths of asylum seekers off the coast of Java a few days previously.

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Rally for Refugees Sydney - Videos (youtube)

Submitted by cam on Sat, 15/10/2011 - 11:20pm

15/10/2011 - Between midday and 2pm people gathered at Sydney Town hall to rally in support of Refugees. Attached are some youtube videos I took of the action.

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Refugee activists picket SERCO office in Melbourne - 16 September 2011

Submitted by peter on Sun, 18/09/2011 - 5:01pm

Members and supporters of the Refugee Action Collective, Victoria, including contingents from Monash and Melbourne Universities, held a protest on Friday 16 September outside the Melbourne office of SERCO, the company which holds the contract for running Australia’s immigration detention centres.

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Despatches from Leonora (January-February 2011)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/09/2011 - 3:33pm

In January 2011 Giovanni Torre travelled to Leonora to interview local residents, community leaders, Traditional Owners and asylum seekers detained at the Leonora Alternative Place of Detention. He conducted further interviews in February.

The names of unsuccessful or unresolved asylum seekers have been concealed to protect them and their families.

“Pashtun always say; Tajik go to Tajikistan, Uzbek go to Uzbekistan, Pashtun live in Afghanistan and Hazara go to graveyard.”

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Tortured when deported to their place of origin - AUSTRALIA GETS IT WRONG, again.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 11/08/2011 - 10:03am

Please consider viewing the following:

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3198518.htm

And please consider viewing:

http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAC-143-2010/

THESE 3 men were deported from Australia in October 2009 on the grounds
that they were found not to have believable claims that they would
suffer persecution on return.

Clearly someone got it wrong. These men have been comprehensively
tortured AND TWO YEARS LATER ARE STILL IN PRISON WITHOUT BEING CHARGED.

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Discovering the truth - Gerry Georgatos.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 10/08/2011 - 4:16pm

The ability to discover the truth is outstripped by the ability to manifest deceit. Generally, I try to rely on the context of statistics and facts to hang on to the truth.

In Malaysia, 29,759 foreigners were caned between 2005 to end of 2010. This refutes Minister Bowen's claims that human rights, as we know them, will be protected.

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HRA media release: Ruwuan, Roshan and Tharanga NEED our help. We have to stop the rot and the suffering.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 09/08/2011 - 10:19pm

HUMAN RIGHTS MEDIA RELEASE: THREE SRI LANKAN ASYLUM SEEKERS IN LIMBO - Their suffering continues. From Christmas Island to Prison to freedom to Darwin. More Lies. On October 22, 2009 the NOR 66 risked the high seas in a direct journey from Sri Lanka to Christmas Island, 27 days, with 30 Asylum Seekers. Three of them were Rwuan T. Senavirathna, Roshan Warnakulasuriya Fernando and Tharanga Warnakulasuriya Fernando (these two are cousins). Their are lives are at risk if they are returned to Sri Lanka.

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HRA media release: THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN - up to 100 of the world's most impoverished children - WHERE IS HADI?

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 09/08/2011 - 9:29pm

The Human Rights Alliance Media Release:

THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN - up to 100 of the world's most impoverished children in Australian adult prisons - WHERE IS HADI?

There may be up to 100 impoverished Indonesian children in Australian adult prisons - we know for a fact the brunt of these numbers are in Western Australian prisons.

At this time some of these children's cases are being heard in Australian Courts.

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Human Rights Alliance Media Release: Crises of our National Identity - Racism on show - Australian Mandatory Detention horrors.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 09/08/2011 - 9:21pm

The Human Rights Alliance Media Release:

Unprecedented crises of the Australian racist identity looming - Christmas Island Detention Centre a war zone.

Even with the transient relief of the High Court legal injunction various reports and a plethora of desperate pleas are rampaging out of Christmas Island Detention Centre, from Asylum Seekers and from some of those who work there.

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