1.10.13
Concern Australian government is ignoring West Papuan asylum seekers plight - Australia Network News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): A spokesman for Freedom Flotilla, Ruben Blake says the asylum seekers were involved in a welcoming ceremony involving the handover of sacred water and ashes from Australian Aboriginal elders in the Indonesian province of West Papua.
He says as a result they faced a crackdown from Indonesian security forces, which led to them seeking asylum in Australia.
The West Papuans were intercepted in the Torres Strait on Wednesday and sent to PNG on Thursday.
Mr Blake has told Pacific Beat the Australian government has handed them over to PNG authorities.
"What the Australian government seems to be pushing for is that they will be resettled along with a population of West Papuan refugees numbering 10 thousand or more in PNG where people in Port Moresby have been reported as being seem recently," he said.
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