Now check out this excerpt of a media article exploring the refugee deal the LNP is celebrating with Cambodia. Absolutely pitiful how LNP cruelty goes full circle from our involvement in the American War against Vietnam. We helped bring the Khmer Rouge to power. Human rights really are in the eye of the beholder Your immigration minister Scott Redacted Morrison signed an agreement with Cambodias Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Friday, after lobbing in late to the ceremony, drinking champagne in celebration of sending desperate people to a poverty-stricken country, and then refusing to acknowledge - much less answer questions from - the massed journalists being corralled nearby. For some reason Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young thought this was a smidge tasteless: On budget night we had Joe Hockey dancing, and now we have Scott Morrison popping champagne corks after signing a dirty deal with one of the most corrupt and poorest nations on Earth. Other people who thought it a bit less-than-great included Australians who had once lived in Cambodia, who clashed with police outside the Canberra embassy while making the point that us shipping people to Cambodia is in breach of the UN 1951 Refugee Convention - to which we are signatories - since we cant ensure that Cambodia will recognise their human rights when they arrive. Cambodia is not a signatory, and has a human rights history that is… lets go with colourful. Advertisement Why would that be? Hun Sen, this is your life! Lets have a little chat about Scottys new BFF Hun Sen. You know, the former Khmer Rogue leader? That one. For a start, hes been Prime Minister of Cambodia for 25 years. Youd assume from that sort of length of time that he was a dictator, right? But no: as Morrison has repeatedly assured us, Cambodias a democratic country, and Hun has just happened to have been returned time and time again. Others disagree, like Amnesty International and the United Nations: the first accused him of war crimes and of torturing prisoners and political opponents, and the latter demanded he step down after they monitored Cambodias elections and found them laughably corrupt. Hun decided not to worry about either. And Cambodia is a wealthy country with a strong textile and agricultural sectors, as Mozza has made clear. Its also the country with lowest quality of life of the ASEAN countries, with endemic poverty, 40 per cent malnutrition among its children, and - on a not-unrelated note - is currently ranked as the second most corrupt nation on the planet, second only to North Korea. So, to recap: your government is chuffed to deal with a war criminal presiding over a dictatorship in order to send people to one of the most poverty-stricken regions on the planet. Oh, and weve just paid said war criminal $40 million to sweeten the deal - money which will no doubt be used wisely, right? I know that this sort of thing just sounds like business as usual these days, but just to be clear: this isnt something with which you should be basically fine. Read more: smh.au/comment/a-toast-to-scott-morrison-for-paying-a-war-criminal-40-million-to-house-refugees-in-abject-poverty-20140928-10n7uh.html#ixzz3EcHsXPh9
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:33:13 +0000
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