Manus Island Refugees To Be Sent Home

[icyfroth]

MOST asylum seekers being held on Manus Island will be sent to their home countries within weeks, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says.

Mr O’Neill on Tuesday said six asylum seekers previously housed in the Manus Island detention centre have been moved to an Australian-built transit centre outside the Manus capital, Lorengau, before resettlement in PNG.

But he said most of the detainees are not genuine political refugees.

“I think many of them are just out there trying to have economic opportunities that Australia and other countries offer to them,” Mr O’Neill told the ABC.

He said only a very small number of detainees would be determined to be legitimate refugees.

“Most of the other people who are in the processing centre we’re now talking to their governments and we will start repatriating many of them in a very short time,” he said.

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@icyfroth wrote:

MOST asylum seekers being held on Manus Island will be sent to their home countries within weeks, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says.

Mr O’Neill on Tuesday said six asylum seekers previously housed in the Manus Island detention centre have been moved to an Australian-built transit centre outside the Manus capital, Lorengau, before resettlement in PNG.

But he said most of the detainees are not genuine political refugees.

“I think many of them are just out there trying to have economic opportunities that Australia and other countries offer to them,” Mr O’Neill told the ABC.

He said only a very small number of detainees would be determined to be legitimate refugees.

“Most of the other people who are in the processing centre we’re now talking to their governments and we will start repatriating many of them in a very short time,” he said.

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as it should be, if they are not genuine refugees.

[ashjoma]

Good. And may there be many more to follow. Borders up.

[gleee58]

Do you people seriously believe that most of the asylum seekers living on Manus Island for a couple of years are not genuine refugees? 

The locals have made it clear that any refugees who stay in the area will be hunted down and killed.

[icyfroth]

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@gleee58 wrote:

Do you people seriously believe that most of the asylum seekers living on Manus Island for a couple of years are not genuine refugees? 

Yes. And so does the PM of PNG

The locals have made it clear that any refugees who stay in the area will be hunted down and killed.

Really? Where did you hear that?

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[gleee58]

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/06/manus-detainees-recognised-as-refugees-will-be...

In a transcript of a speech intended for detainees at the Australian-run detention centre – a copy of which has been obtained by Guardian Australia – an official from the PNG immigration department said those recognised as refugees would be forced from detention. “Your choices are simple: make Papua New Guinea your home, or leave.”

But detainees said they have been told they will be attacked and killed if made to live in the community.

One detainee reported this week being threatened by a PNG guard at the compound: “We will rape and then kill all of those who enter new accommodations in Lorengau,” the guard allegedly said. “We are fully equipped and ready. We hate you. Leave our land. Australia is not boss, we are boss here.”

Threats of violence against detainees are common on Manus.

[daydream**believer]

ohhh, so the people who are not genuine refugees and tried to get to Australia illegally are saying that "they will be attacked and killed if made to live in the community."

yeh right

[cherry*135]

Manus Island: Asylum seekers to be sent back to home countries

Misleading headline, not all of them will be sent home.

BBC NEWS

Peter O'Neill (PNG PM)  told the ABC network that many detainees at Manus Island centre were in fact economic migrants.

A campaigner dismissed his statement, saying most of the detainees had yet to have their asylum claims processed.

However, Ian Rintoul, a spokesman for campaign group Refugee Action Coalition, told the BBC this would not happen, as only a fraction of the detainees' asylum applications had been processed.

"[Mr O'Neill] is in no place to know whether they are [economic refugees] or not," he said. "There has been no determination assessment."

Mr Rintoul said the PNG government statement "undermines confidence that there is any respect for refugee law".

[harley_babes_hoard]

well that stands to reason doesn't. They will try anything to come to australia.

[gleee58]

How is a person who walked, hitched, trained it, and got on a leaky boat not a genuine refugee?

Do you really believe that most asylum seeking people just scrape together all their dollars and borrow from family and friends to get here if they have no need for asylum?

Why would so many risk their lives in a leaky boat if their lives are not at risk where they are?