Australia completes 600 days without any asylum-seeker intrusion

Europe is struggling to cope with an influx of migrants fleeing ravages of war, torture and poverty from different regions but, Australia has completed 600-days without any intrusion of asylum seekers. This is a result of decision taken by Australia to turn back asylum-seeker boats. In the past 600 days no vessel has arriving, and almost 700 people have being repelled since the controversial policy was launched.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 17 March 2016.

In view of the hardline measures, asylum-seekers who are trying to reach Australia by boat are turned back to their country of departure or sent to remote Pacific island camps, where living conditions have been criticized with allegations of rape and other abuse. These asylum seekers are not allowed to resettle in Australia even if they are found to be refugees. This policy of the conservative government aims at preventing deaths at sea.
Under the previous Labor government, at least 1,200 people had lost their lives in trying to reach Australia by boat between 2008 and 2013. When the new government took over, they began "Operation Sovereign Borders" in September 2013. As a result, 25 boats carrying 698 people had been turned back and "safely returned to their country of departure".
Incidentally, Amnesty wants an independent review into allegations that Australian authorities had paid crew on a people-smuggling boat US$30,000 to return 65 asylum-seekers to Indonesia.


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