Creeping Death
01-24-2009, 11:40 PM
In Italy..........
Migrants break out of Italian camp (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/01/2009124133530803626.html)
Hundreds of asylum seekers and hopeful migrants have broken out of a holding centre on the Italian island of Lampedusa and marched to the town hall.
Bernardino De Rubeis, the island’s mayor, said that 700 out of about 1,300 people at the centre walked out on Saturday morning. “It is a very tense situation,” he said.
Police said the group forced open the gates of the camp and marched peacefully to the town centre to protest against their detention. They were joined by a few hundred locals who also want the inmates transferred to bigger camps elsewhere in Italy.
The Italian interior ministry said there had been “no escape of illegal immigrants” because it was a camp for assistance rather than expulsion, “so there is no obligation to stay there”.
Many were already returning to the camp, it said in a statement.
And in Thailand...........
Boat people claim Thai mistreatment (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/01/20091244723199894.html)
Thai authorities are grappling with a scandal over alleged mistreatment by soldiers of hundreds of ethnic Rohingyas refugees from Myanmar. Details are surfacing about the plight of Rohingya boat people who were apparently beaten by Thai soldiers before being towed out to sea.
The allegations, apparently supported by photographs and witness accounts, have dented Thailand’s tourist-friendly image. Some of the migrants managed to reach Indonesia and videos of them arriving on the shore show them to be in a shocking physical condition. Others are in detention on the Indian islands of Andaman. Two of those held there have spoken of being abused by Thai soldiers.
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Migrants break out of Italian camp (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/01/2009124133530803626.html)
Hundreds of asylum seekers and hopeful migrants have broken out of a holding centre on the Italian island of Lampedusa and marched to the town hall.
Bernardino De Rubeis, the island’s mayor, said that 700 out of about 1,300 people at the centre walked out on Saturday morning. “It is a very tense situation,” he said.
Police said the group forced open the gates of the camp and marched peacefully to the town centre to protest against their detention. They were joined by a few hundred locals who also want the inmates transferred to bigger camps elsewhere in Italy.
The Italian interior ministry said there had been “no escape of illegal immigrants” because it was a camp for assistance rather than expulsion, “so there is no obligation to stay there”.
Many were already returning to the camp, it said in a statement.
And in Thailand...........
Boat people claim Thai mistreatment (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/01/20091244723199894.html)
Thai authorities are grappling with a scandal over alleged mistreatment by soldiers of hundreds of ethnic Rohingyas refugees from Myanmar. Details are surfacing about the plight of Rohingya boat people who were apparently beaten by Thai soldiers before being towed out to sea.
The allegations, apparently supported by photographs and witness accounts, have dented Thailand’s tourist-friendly image. Some of the migrants managed to reach Indonesia and videos of them arriving on the shore show them to be in a shocking physical condition. Others are in detention on the Indian islands of Andaman. Two of those held there have spoken of being abused by Thai soldiers.
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