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Sri Lanka detains asylum-seekers in high seas
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 2 days ago
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Sri Lanka's navy has detained at least 100 people trying to sail illegally to Australia, an official said on Tuesday, days after a boatload of asylum-seekers triggered a diplomatic standoff between Australia and Indonesia. The number of people trying...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Australia, asylum seekers, Colombo, Refugee, Social Issues, War Conflict, Vietnamese diaspora, Galle, Refugees, Boat people, Human migration, Kevin Rudd, Rudd Government, Pacific Solution, Immigration to Australia, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Politics of Australia, Politics, Nauru detention centre, Serco Group, Population, Right of asylum, Demography, Forced migration
Share asylum burden, Indonesians plead
Canberra :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility Rudd Government as the country's foreign affairs minister called on Australia to ''share the burden'' of immigrants streaming through the archipelago. Its call came as a customs vessel intercepted 53 asylum seekers off north-western Australia yesterday.
Tags: Australian, asylum seekers, Australia, Canberra, Refugee, Amnesty International, Kevin Rudd, Boat people, Immigration, Immigration to Australia, Temporary protection visa, Immigration detention, Social Issues, Politics, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia, Chris Evans, Siev 36, Forced migration, Marty Natalegawa
Aid agency staff withdraw over hostage fears
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 10 days ago
Credibility Standoff...Sri Lankan asylum seekers on board their boat in the port of Merak...The International Organisation for Migration has withdrawn its staff from a dock at a port in north-western Java, fearing they could be taken hostage by desperate Sri Lankan...
Tags: sri lankan, asylum seekers, Indonesia, lankan asylum, Jakarta, International Organization for Migration, Refugee, Tamil people, Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, Dravidian peoples, Human migration, Social Issues, Riau, Riau Archipelago, Sri Lanka, Bintan Island, Boat people, Forced migration, Refugees, War Conflict, Politics, Gatot Soebroto, Pacific Solution, Javanese people, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Should We Be Preparing For Afghan Immigrants
Lou Dobbs May Have Two Shows By Robert Weller In the first year after Vietnam, 130,000 refugees fled to the United States for sanctuary. Many feared, and rightly, that they would be killed for siding with the imperialists. One million were imprisoned...
Tags: Lou Dobbs, vietnam, afghanistan, boat people, thai pirates, refugees
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