Island locations for Australia Asylum seeker detention

As it is clear, that we Afghan Refugees were attempting to seek asylum in Australia but unfortunately the navy forces of Australia pushed us back to Indonesia on October 2001 till our cases can be processed by UNHCR. Now it is more than two years that no solution is there for our desperate life. UNHCR does not care about us and other countries also accept refugees through recommendation of UNHCR. 

On the other hand the situation of Afghanistan is going to be worsened. U. N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned yesterday (7 January 2004) that the peace process in Afghanistan has reached a critical juncture and warned violence could disrupt upcoming elections. 

In the last two years we have sought all possible ways of solution for our stateless condition but none of them worked, after all these struggle, only one way is left, the last one and the most pathetic one, that you can think how difficult is to sew the lips and choose the way of death cautiously, because if we are not heard and humanitarian organizations do not pay attention to our request then we will simply die. 

Therefore, four Afghan Refugees sewed their lips and some other have gone on hunger strike in protest that why UNHCR does not accept us as refugee, why we have been kept deprived of our human rights for years. 

6 Australia s Pacific Solution Awash with Inhumanity 

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Fig. 98.1 Island locations for Australia Asylum seeker detention. (Map by Bernard Shaw, Western Australia, 2009)...

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