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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[vicr3000]

I came as a dependant, the company seconded my father out here to run it.

I got my citizenship not long after I decided to stay, about a year and a half

as you had to be a citizen to serve in the military so it was automatic, no waiting period.

So completely different to these people.

 "Is the war where you came from over?"

You could ask AM3 the same question, but you won't.

[donnashuggy]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

I would rather be in a leaky old boat then live in PNG and I have been there.

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Then you wouldn't be a genuine refugee

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Do you know the difference?