LEST WE FORGET - HOWARD'S HELLHOLES

"Curtin Detention Camp was the most secret of all 'Australia's Hellholes'.
New arrivals were placed in compounds isolated from everyone except those with whom they had arrived for up to 13 months. This was called 'separation detention'.
They had no access to information, newspapers, radio or TV. They could not contact family. They were not interviewed nor told for how long this situation would continue.

"The Afghani men and boys in this footage fled a massacre of Hazaras in Afghanistan. After a life- threatening journey they arrived in Curtin. Some became very ill. They were locked in empty rooms. There they became desperate.

"This video popped out of a camera and was picked up and thrown across a compound wall. Guards dug up gardens and tore up floor boards to find it. Months later a detainee emerged to freedom and brought this video with him.

"It has been publicly shown once before and provides rare insider footage of life in an 'Australian Hellhole."
Text supplied by Pamela Curr
Campaign Coordinator
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre ASRC


The following links provide background and comment:
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/s538958.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s538998.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/s537864.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/s541593.htm
http://www.ag.gov.au/agd/WWW/justiceministerHome.nsf/Page/Media_Releases_2002...

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Asylum
• Seekers
• DIMIA
• Ruddock
• Howard
• Australia
• Curtin
• ACM
• Hazara
• Afghanistan

[Inconvenientruths]

@Christoopha

Mate your sentiments are in the right place, but I believe in firness above all! People who enter Australia illegally are just trying to jump the queue!

The ex bases are very good, I have been in several and I would suggest to you that these people are better than where they came from!

I also worked in the Aboriginal industry for years and believe me you can fool ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME!

The crap people are feed has little relationship with the facts, unfortunately!

[Christoopha]

@Inconvenientruths Detention centres are extremely costly. Community processing is much cheaper, if we closed down the centres and replaced them with community processing the money saved could be put into public housing for everyone. Helping Australia's homeless goes hand in hand with closing down the centres. And don't you believe in equality? People are equal - you simply can't say someones life is worth less purely because they were born in another country.

[Inconvenientruths]

One thing I do find sickening is the terminology Lest We Forget.

Just because some druggos want to have a cry because they feel some of this lot are hard done by,They were after cash incentives.

Fuckem and fuck anyone who drug affected or not compares financial refos with Diggers who have fought for AUISTRALIA...

If people want to cry or do something they think is good, GIVE BLOOD or take in some homeless AUSTRALIANS FIRST!

Fuck I hate Civil Libertarians, Drug Adicts and Cryers.

[Inconvenientruths]

Crikey this is funny.

While all but the drug addicted can see this has only happend under Comrade Kev, you cannot blame the commies either!

Blame the refos, yes in some ways Labor is directly responsible for luring these people here with cash incentives, but shit ITS THIER CHOICE!

They could go to another country that does not offer cash incentives without any danger at all!

[Caydn]

gee they get free accomadation and they still whinnned

[finalsseries]

So relaxing the laws and luring 53 people to their deaths (with many more missing and unaccounted for boats) under Rudd is humane is it. With less people under Howard in detention do you think their were that many actual or possible deaths? BTW: herchikiast can't say as I couldn't comprehend a word you were saying.

[finalsseries]

So relaxing the luring 53 people to their deaths (with many more missing and unaccounted for boats) under Rudd is humane is it. With less people under Howard in detention do you think their were that many actual or possible deaths? BTW: herchikiast can't say as I couldn't comprehend a word you were saying.

[latifkabadya]

shut ur fuking mouth mate....fuking idiot

[germanicelt]

Funny thing is, this is not Howards policy. It's Keatings. Laborites just like the pin this on Howard cause they need anything they can get. Like this crafty bugger Rudd. He made us think we would be so better off without Workchoices. Well now we have watered down Workchoices with 50 billion dollars of debt, and counting. So what do you think we will be worse off with???

Rudd is the puppet of the international banking cartel behind the RBA, and the Australian people fell for it.

[germanicelt]

Muslims don't need the help of white people to be trouble makers and want to kill each other. I believe they were waring with each other before Europeans went to the middle east.