The refugees torn from loved ones by Australia’s ‘cruel’ family separations Ben Doherty
Nayser Ahmed, his wife and two children, fled together.
As members of the violently persecuted Rohingya ethnic minority, their homeland, Myanmar, would never be safe.
The family ran together, they planned to come to Australia together.
“We were in Indonesia on the way to catching the boat to Australia,” Nayser says. “We were supposed to all get in one car and go to the boat but there were not enough seats in the car. I told my family to go ahead and I would be right behind them. But another car never came.”
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Nayser Ahmed, his wife and two children, fled together.
As members of the violently persecuted Rohingya ethnic minority, their homeland, Myanmar, would never be safe.
The family ran together, they planned to come to Australia together.
âWe were in Indonesia on the way to catching the boat to Australia,â Nayser says. âWe were supposed to all get in one car and go to the boat but there were not enough seats in the car. I told my family to go ahead and I would be right behind them. But another car never came.â
A week after Nayserâs family arrived in July 2013, the Australian governmentâs policy changed: all new arrivals would be sent offshore.
drums of war are beating in comments to his staff over the weekend as relations between Beijing and Canberra continue to strain. In a world of perpetual tension and dread, the drums of war beat sometimes faintly and distantly, and at other times
more loudly and ever closer, said Australia’s Department of Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo in comments that were made public on Tuesday. Today, as free nations again hear the beating drums and watch worryingly the militarization of issues that we had, until recent years, thought unlikely to be catalysts for war,
let us continue to search unceasingly for the chance for peace while bracing again, yet again, for the curse of war, he said.
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