Pacific Despair - Australia

Feb 2003
We bring you an exclusive report filmed in the Australian asylum processing centre, where detainees have seized control of the camp and driven out their guards.

The isolated pacific island of Nauru seemed the perfect place to detain and process asylum seekers. Denied access to lawyers or journalists, detainees have been interned in a state of limbo for over 16 months. On Christmas Eve, a riot broke out at the camp that left many of the guards injured. Since then, all services and personnel have been withdrawn and the asylum seekers left to fend for themselves. "We can't take it anymore. It's been a month since we had food or water," despairs one detainee. Mothers have been reduced to drinking rainwater and feeding their children expired milk. Access to medical services are severely restricted and the overwhelming feeling in the camp is one of despair. "I want to die. I don't have any future," states one inmate. Unless the Australian government reassesses its policy, the plight of these asylum seekers can only worsen.

Produced by SBS/Dateline
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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[elliotoblio]

are all the doctors arabs are they ? what a dumb statement, you sound like your 12 years old Australian culture is its cultural diversity but we dont need irrational desperate people who think our system is that easy to exploit all you have to do is turn up & create a drama threaten to throw your children over board or starve yourself then sew up your lips etc this is corrupt behavior & they arent even here yet how do they exploit us when they are let in its about there actions not their race !

[elliotoblio]

So much hate can only come from ones self u must be very unhappy being u, every country was colonized you burk, we cant go back,we built & defended her soil when under threat, it just shows your willfully ignorant mindset, is this all you have to say, not very impressive actually no solid evidence at all ? except for the obvious invasion. My family is aboriginal u fool & yes alot of shit has gone done but we do get looked after know.What nationality r u ? also u dont run all the business

[malaliful]

@elliotoblio who are the doctors in your hospitals? arabs... who owns all the businesses.. people from other countries. firstly u aussies r immigrants too.. u took this country from aboriginals.. do i need to remind u?

italians may be pussing the drugs but auusies r the ones sitting in every ally way begging for money to buy them.

ciao ;)

[elliotoblio]

act locally then think globally ! every one from know on stay put in your own country, dont they have family they are abandoning back home ? i wouldnt leave my family its not human to abandoned ones blood, example= who runs this country criminally ? Immigrants,the italian mafia basically think they run everything & Sydney the Lebanese & other various middle eastern gangs run the streets pushing the drugs the mafia import, why have they taken over ? because they are ruthless its in their blood

[elliotoblio]

every country is racist you fool, plenty more than us, its more about the mental state of these people, not their race, there not displaying the traits of good citizens they are unstable,we have to have a process of letting people in or otherwise immigrants would take over this country, they already run our criminal underworld Remember they put them selves in this situation, they are just sour their plan didnt work out & their soul intention to get here is the beginning of there scam they are sc

[s3condwind]

so if I try go australia they but me in ther that plase??

[rosey312]

The government needs to either let these folk go back home or treated with dignity. It is a shame that people who are so traumatized are traumatized again in this camp. Let them out or send them home.

[malaliful]

@macbrack open your eyes fuckwit. coz they have all this time to think this through huh. almost every country in the middle east is war torn too.. u think they'll leave from saddam hussains grip and walk into the tallibans huh? australia is meant to be a 'multicultural' society where people r treated fairly.. instead ignorant people like u fill this place up, racist and ethnocentric. fuck u. if it was an american trying to come into australia they come with open arms.

[malaliful]

@invokeme i am disgusted to be an australian. this is filthy. human rights my fucking ass.

[shipmaker14]

@macbrack I completely agree! Provided we wonderful white Western countries start spending trillions of dollars on Bombs to kill a Million+ fellow white people instead of ruining their countries. Sound fair?

Wouldn't you get on a boat to get the fuck out of Iraq?