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*** 31-Oct-17 World View -- A 'powderkeg' as Australia closes refugee camp and refugees refuse to leave

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  • A 'powderkeg' as Australia closes refugee camp and refugees refuse to leave
  • Australia and Papua New Guinea unable to agree on the future of the refugees

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**** A 'powderkeg' as Australia closes refugee camp and refugees refuse to leave
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Protesters in Australia's PNG Manus Island refugee center (AAP)

About 600 male refugees inside a refugee center on Manus Island in
Papua New Guinea (PNG) are barricading themselves inside, refusing the
leave as Australia and PNG attempt to shut down the center on Tuesday.

The men are refusing to relocate to other to other more residential
facilities in PNG, saying that they fear violence by the locals.

Starting in 2013, Australia's prime minister Kevin Rudd announced that
any asylum seeker who arrives by boat without a visa will have "no
chance" of being resettled there as a refugee. Australia
intercepted refugees who tried to reach the country by boat and sent
them to offshore refugee centers. Under an agreement with the
respective countries, men have been sent to Manus Island in PNG, while
men, women and children have been sent to refugee centers on Nauru.

From the point of view of meeting its objective, the policy has been
successful. While there had previously been tens of thousands of
"boat people" per year arriving in Australia, that number has been
reduced to almost none, because refugees know that they will be
transferred to one of the offshore detention centers.

However, the policy has been extremely controversial, and has been
opposed by humanitarian organizations, who claim that the refugee
centers in PNG and Nauru are filthy and unsafe, with numerous stories
of beatings, torture and sexual abuse.

Australia's refugee policy was thrown into chaos in May of last year,
when the PNG Supreme Court ruled that PNG's Manus Island refugee
center was inhumane, and had to be shut down. After months of
finger-pointing between PNG and Australia, the Manus Island refugee
center is officially closed as of Tuesday, November 1.

However, the refugees have barricaded themselves into the center and
are refusing to leave. In order to force them to leave, food, water,
electricity and sanitation will no longer be provided to the center
after Tuesday. At some point, police try to forcibly remove them.

This situation is being described as a "powder keg." All along, there
has been sporadic violence between the refugees in the center and
between the refugees and locals. According to some reports, handsome
young male refugees from the center and attractive young girls from
the neighborhoods have formed secret relationships, with violence
breaking out when the girls' families discover what's going on.

So now refugees are being asked to relocate to refugee centers in
residential neighborhoods, and are refusing to leave because a number
of PNG locals have threatened violence against anyone moving into
their neighborhoods. Reuters and Sydney Morning Herald and Post Courier (PNG) and Radio New Zealand

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**** Australia and Papua New Guinea unable to agree on the future of the refugees
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When the PNG Supreme Court issued its ruling last year, Australia
issued a statement saying that PNG was responsible for the health and
welfare of the refugees after they leave the refugee center. On
Saturday, PNG's government issued a statement saying Australia was
completely responsible. Humanitarian groups are demanding that the
refugees all be relocated to Australia, something that's opposed by
Australian government officials, who fear that such a move would
trigger a new flood of boat people arriving in Australia.

As usual, money is a large part of the motivating factor here. In
May, the Australian government confirmed that it had spent A$4.89
billion (US$3.83 billion) on its Nauru and PNG Manus operations since
2012. Thus, the refugee centers have been a valuable source of income
to the two countries involved, and they don't wish to lose it.
So few people in PNG's government are suggesting that the refugees
simply be shipped back to Australia.

Under Australia's agreement with PNG, Australia is financially
responsible for food, services and healthcare. These financial
obligations will continue, even if the refugee center is closed,
however the contractors providing the services will be under
contract to PNG rather than to Australia. Estimates are that
Australia will pay $150-$250 million per year.

In a statement Saturday by PNG's immigration minister:

<QUOTE>"It is PNG’s position that as long as there is one
individual from this arrangement that remains in PNG, Australia
will continue to provide financial and other support to PNG to
manage the persons transferred under the arrangement until the
last person leaves or is independently resettled in PNG.

PNG has offered refugees the option of resettlement but will not
force refugees who do not wish to settle in the country ... they
remain the responsibility of Australia."<END QUOTE>


As of the date of closing of the camp, there is no agreement on what
will happen to the refugees. Some may be granted refugee status and
remain, others will be refused and will be deported back to their home
countries. Some will be transferred to other refugee centers
on PNG, and others will be transferred to Nauru.

Some may be transferred to third countries. In November of last year,
President Barack Obama and Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
signed an agreement to allow 1,250 refugees being held in the offshore
detention centers to be resettled in the United States. President
Donald Trump reluctantly agreed to honor the deal, but so far only 54
refugees have been transferred to the United States.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, the rapid worldwide
growth in the number of refugees and displaced persons is one of the
main factors leading to the next major wars in the world. The Crisis
Group estimated a year ago that there were 65 million such people,
mostly from war regions in Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, and South
Sudan. Sydney Morning Herald and Crisis Group and Asian Age and Guardian (London)

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Australia, Papua New Guinea, PNG, Manus Island,
Nauru island, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull,
Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, South Sudan

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