Laugh till you cry wrote on Apr 17
th, 2019 at 1:47pm:
Australia has room for the 700,000 Rohingya refugees holed up in Bangladesh.
Australian representatives in the UN have been flapping their lips making humanitarian-like bleating noises and tut-tuts but have not opened their hearts, their wallets, and their doors.
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/australias-obligation-to-rohingya/10334312 Quote: ...Australia has an obligation to the Rohingya people: So why is the federal government prevaricating?
Rawan Arraf
Posted Wed 3 Oct 2018, 4:32pm
Updated Wed 3 Oct 2018, 9:02pm ...
... Australia also needs to play a more active role because of the small but substantial Rohingya refugee community here. There are some 3,000 Rohingya refugees who are in Australia on either permanent or temporary protection visas. Although they weren't present for the orchestrated violence that began in earnest in August 2017, they are survivors of decades-old campaign of persecution against the Rohingya by the Myanmar authorities. Or indeed, many of them have family members who were killed or survived the latest atrocities and are now in Bangladesh.
I've spoken to former clients, all of them having arrived by boat and many of whom are still waiting for their protection interviews and assessments. Prevented from the right to sponsor family members on visas to Australia, they are eager to conclude the process and go and visit their family members in the refugee camps of Cox's Bazar.
We also cannot ignore the Rohingya refugees Australia has detained on offshore detention centres in Nauru and on Manus Island. The FFM stated that the survivors of Myanmar's atrocities deserve a future free of danger and insecurity. Australia is holding us back from even that simple ambition.
Rawan Arraf is a human rights lawyer. She was a solicitor at the Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) and is currently working on a project to develop Australia's domestic prosecutions of international crimes and gross human rights violations. ...
Really?
Just like that?
Well, I don't think its Australia's obligation to support poverty through over-population because lets face it. They will prefer to live here like they did in Bangladesh with giant pockets of Bangladeshi styled slums and shanties and no desire to 'assimilate' to the current Australian society style.
Nah - we can help them make their country a better place to live in, but why should we just step into a 'feud', take sides and throw our weight around.
United Nations was set up for a reason.
Maybe other nations besides 'Western' need to carry the load for once?
Oh what - they're irresponsibly over-populated and full of their 'own' refugees seeking access into rich people's homes like beggars banging on front doors of mansion yelling
"It's all your fault, we've got 10 kids to feed!!!" Sick of this country being scammed by emotionally blackmailing irresponsibly over-populated nations crying refugee for anything they can get for free.