Two unaccompanied Tamil children (12 & 14) were forced on a plane - TopicsExpress



          

Two unaccompanied Tamil children (12 & 14) were forced on a plane and returned to Sri Lanka without being allowed to seek asylum. The children were crying and screaming and begging to be able to stay, said a witness. One of the security officers realised they were too young and no one was accompanying them and so took them off the plane. Then there was a stand-off while someone rang Canberra and were instructed by someone very, very senior to put them back on the plane. They were part of a group of 84 Tamils who had arrived on the Coco Islands after 34 days at sea and within 48 hours were put on a plane and sent back to Colombo. Asylum seekers being detained on Christmas Island and off shore on Nauru and Manus Island are being subjected to a regime of coercion and intimidation and living in appalling conditions in a deliberate bid to force them to go home. Read more: smh.au/federal-politics/political-news/asylum-policy-of-deterrence-threatening-families-20131114-2xjnr.html#ixzz2kfV27QMP
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 06:00:07 +0000

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