Wednesday, February 18, 2015

 

Australia's asylum seeker disgrace. Where I stand March 2015

1. Where I stand on asylum seekers

I stand opposed to the Australian Government's treatment of Asylum Seekers. Certainly during and since the Howard Government it has descended into inhumanity and cruelty akin to tyrannous regimes of other places and times past.

Under the Abbott government and the administration of Minister Morrison supported by the entire Cabinet, Australia has interceprted asylum seekers at sea and transported them under duress and against their wishes to gulags and concentration camps in neighbouring countries with the deliberate intention of causing them maximum harm. 

As well the Government does this under conditions of secrecy concealing as much as they can from the Australian peoples.

The Australian Navy intercepts boats which are lawfully at sea and whether they are seaworthy or not, takes the passengers, including children and pregnant women, on board, ignores their pleas for asylum and forcibly transfers them against their wishes to countries beyond Australia's jursdiction. These people have committed no crime. People who arrive at Christmas Island or other Australian Territories and apply for asylum are also transferred to other countries beyond Australias jurisdiction against their wishes; 

That seems very close to being the following Crime against Humanity: (d) deportation or forcible transfer of population (forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds permitted under international law)

People who present at Christmas Island or other Australian Territories and those taken by the Australian Navy onto "Australian Assets" at sea, are transferred to other countries against their wishes where they are imprisoned indefinitely without charge (because they have committed no crime) where they are told that they "will never ever" be allowed entry to Australia, denied proper and timely health care, education, training, healthy nutrition, the right to work, to their own space and access to judicial processes, where they are woken from sleep in the middle of the night without warning and transferred to yet another concentration camp in another country;
Those acts seem very close to being the following Crimes Against Humanity: 
 (e) imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rule of international law;

(f) torture (the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody and under the control of the accused except that torture does not include pain or suffering arising from, inherent in, or incidental to lawful sanctions).

(h) persecution against any identifiable group or collectively on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender, or other grounds that are universally recognised as impermissible under international law.

The Australian Government inflicts these tortures on one particular identifiable group of asylum seekers and not others. The reasons are political and ideological.

 I accuse the Australian Government of inflicting extradjudically, severely cruel inhumane and punishment upon my fellow human beings which, if not actually found to be Crimes Against Humanity, are nontheless crimes or other odious contraventions of international conventions such as the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), for which they should be held to account.
February 2015

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