Doesn't it seem a little odd to be calling out of the centre - an environment where there is violent behaviour? Is Morrison referring to the "death squad".
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Mr Morrison said those asylum seekers who ''breached'' the perimeter of the centre were putting themselves in danger and were subjecting themselves to the response of the local law.
''If people choose to remove themselves from that centre then they're obviously putting themselves at much greater risk and in an environment where there is violent behaviour,'' he said.
''Those who are breaching the perimeter fence and going out of the centre, then this is a disorderly environment in which there is always great risk.
''When there are people who are charged under Papua New Guinea law to maintain law and order in that situation, now if you behave an unruly way and in a disorderly way, then you subject yourself to the response of law enforcement.''
Refugee advocates said locals and police attacked the centre with machetes, knives and other weapons causing mass destruction and serious injuries including one gun-shot wound.
On Monday evening, asylum seekers said they were fearful of a violent attack by the local PNG police, which have been dubbed as the ''death squad'', and angry locals who they said would be wielding machetes, knives and guns.
At the same time, a spokesman from Mr Morrison told Fairfax Radio that any information about a second attack on Monday was ''completely untrue'' and we should be ''more skeptical of stories coming from activists''.
But refugees advocates have again slammed the offshore detention centre in Manus Island, saying it is lawless and that Australia has put the lives of people seeking asylum, who have already fled torture, war and gross human rights violations, at extreme risk.
''Last night's attack was a massacre,'' said Victoria Martin from the Refugee Rights Action Network said.
''It was a pre-meditated attack on unarmed and defenseless asylum seekers some of which have escaped war and are now being put back into, what is essentially a war zone. Manus Island is lawless. These are dangerous people.''
