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Refugees pick Nauru over US
"Nauru: MSF forced to abandon refugees and asylum seekers
"Australia jointly responsible for Nauru's draconian media policy, documents reveal"
Dozens of people who have considered or attempted suicide or self-harm will no longer receive vital mental health care"
Local couple Maverick and Ziki Eoe with their sons Nadal and Texas in Nauru this week. Picture: Glenn Hunt
Paige Taylor
WA Bureau Chief
@paigeataylor
12:00AM November 16, 2018
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/refugees-pick-nauru-over-us/news-story/550fb2615fe376fe99af195ec5f27749
Other refugees are happier.
From Manus to Trump’s America
Imran Mohammad is one of a few hundred refugees from Manus Island to be resettled in the United States. “I’m getting better, but it’s
taking a long time,” he said. Erin Schaff for The New York Times
By Damien Cave
July 25, 2018
Imran Mohammad survived on Manus Island through sheer discipline.
He got up every morning at dawn to run, cooked for large groups at night and in between he wrote a 1,200-page autobiography, by hand, in English.
But the experience of Australia’s offshore detention center — where he was held despite his status as a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar — also nearly broke him.
When I first met him in Manus .. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/18/world/australia/manus-island-australia-detainees.html?module=inline , he whispered in public spaces, his eyes ever-darting, as if trying to hide from threats unseen. When we said goodbye, I remember thinking: If this guy ever gets out, he’s going to succeed wildly, or he’s going to be crushed by modern life.
Now he is in the United States — and I’m still not sure which way he’s heading.
We met in New York last week. He’d been resettled in Chicago a few weeks earlier, and he was traveling with another Rohingya refugee from Manus and an Australian couple from Queensland who flew to the United States to see them after years of long-distance support.
As a foursome, they were a case study in hope and trauma.
Imran looked physically stronger. He told me his life in the United States, as part of the refugee resettlement deal first brokered by President Barack Obama, started with elation.
“It was just incredible to be out of Manus,” he said over a breakfast of coffee and eggs near Times Square. “I’ve been wanting to be a free man my whole life, and when the immigration officer said ‘Welcome to America’ — that was all I wanted to hear.”
But the more we talked the more Imran revealed that he was still haunted by Manus and by Australia’s policy of indefinite detention for asylum seekers trying to get to Australia by boat.
He’d seen people die in Manus, decline into depression, or become addicted to medication. Some were attacked. And he clearly felt conflicted about his departure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/world/australia/from-manus-detention-to-manhattan-washington.html
I've just watched a documentary on Manus now which features among much more these 5 refugees. While at least one of the other four
says he would rather be back on Manus, Imran says, though haunted by those still stuck on Manus, he is very happy to be in the U.S.A.
Forgotten men on Manus are 'broken' one year since detention centre closed
VIDEO - "Five years of cruelty. ...
A report has revealed the refugees and asylum seekers who remain on Manus Island are in a dire mental and physical condition.
Updated Updated 22 November 2018
By Tara Cosoleto
A report from Amnesty International and the Refugee Council of Australia is calling on the governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea to end what they call the "brutal and illegal policy of offshore detention".
The human rights organisations said since the regional processing centre on Manus Island's Lombrum Naval Base closed a year ago, refugees and asylum seekers have "broken down" and are experiencing increasingly poor mental and physical health.
The report, 'Until when? The forgotten men on Manus Island' .. https://www.amnesty.nl/content/uploads/2018/11/Until-When-The-forgotten-men-on-Manus-Island.pdf?x68103 , cites that since August last year three men have killed themselves while many others have attempted suicide.
There are about 600 refugees and asylum seekers living in camps in the main town of Lorengau.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/world/australia/from-manus-detention-to-manhattan-washington.html
"Nauru: MSF forced to abandon refugees and asylum seekers
"Australia jointly responsible for Nauru's draconian media policy, documents reveal"
Dozens of people who have considered or attempted suicide or self-harm will no longer receive vital mental health care"
Local couple Maverick and Ziki Eoe with their sons Nadal and Texas in Nauru this week. Picture: Glenn Hunt
Paige Taylor
WA Bureau Chief
@paigeataylor
12:00AM November 16, 2018
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/refugees-pick-nauru-over-us/news-story/550fb2615fe376fe99af195ec5f27749
Other refugees are happier.
From Manus to Trump’s America
Imran Mohammad is one of a few hundred refugees from Manus Island to be resettled in the United States. “I’m getting better, but it’s
taking a long time,” he said. Erin Schaff for The New York Times
By Damien Cave
July 25, 2018
Imran Mohammad survived on Manus Island through sheer discipline.
He got up every morning at dawn to run, cooked for large groups at night and in between he wrote a 1,200-page autobiography, by hand, in English.
But the experience of Australia’s offshore detention center — where he was held despite his status as a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar — also nearly broke him.
When I first met him in Manus .. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/18/world/australia/manus-island-australia-detainees.html?module=inline , he whispered in public spaces, his eyes ever-darting, as if trying to hide from threats unseen. When we said goodbye, I remember thinking: If this guy ever gets out, he’s going to succeed wildly, or he’s going to be crushed by modern life.
Now he is in the United States — and I’m still not sure which way he’s heading.
We met in New York last week. He’d been resettled in Chicago a few weeks earlier, and he was traveling with another Rohingya refugee from Manus and an Australian couple from Queensland who flew to the United States to see them after years of long-distance support.
As a foursome, they were a case study in hope and trauma.
Imran looked physically stronger. He told me his life in the United States, as part of the refugee resettlement deal first brokered by President Barack Obama, started with elation.
“It was just incredible to be out of Manus,” he said over a breakfast of coffee and eggs near Times Square. “I’ve been wanting to be a free man my whole life, and when the immigration officer said ‘Welcome to America’ — that was all I wanted to hear.”
But the more we talked the more Imran revealed that he was still haunted by Manus and by Australia’s policy of indefinite detention for asylum seekers trying to get to Australia by boat.
He’d seen people die in Manus, decline into depression, or become addicted to medication. Some were attacked. And he clearly felt conflicted about his departure.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/world/australia/from-manus-detention-to-manhattan-washington.html
I've just watched a documentary on Manus now which features among much more these 5 refugees. While at least one of the other four
says he would rather be back on Manus, Imran says, though haunted by those still stuck on Manus, he is very happy to be in the U.S.A.
Forgotten men on Manus are 'broken' one year since detention centre closed
VIDEO - "Five years of cruelty. ...
A report has revealed the refugees and asylum seekers who remain on Manus Island are in a dire mental and physical condition.
Updated Updated 22 November 2018
By Tara Cosoleto
A report from Amnesty International and the Refugee Council of Australia is calling on the governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea to end what they call the "brutal and illegal policy of offshore detention".
The human rights organisations said since the regional processing centre on Manus Island's Lombrum Naval Base closed a year ago, refugees and asylum seekers have "broken down" and are experiencing increasingly poor mental and physical health.
The report, 'Until when? The forgotten men on Manus Island' .. https://www.amnesty.nl/content/uploads/2018/11/Until-When-The-forgotten-men-on-Manus-Island.pdf?x68103 , cites that since August last year three men have killed themselves while many others have attempted suicide.
There are about 600 refugees and asylum seekers living in camps in the main town of Lorengau.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/world/australia/from-manus-detention-to-manhattan-washington.html
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