Rohingya Refugee Sent To PNG By Australia Dies
Umer Jamshaid Published May 22, 2018 | 11:10 AM
A Rohingya refugee from Myanmar died Tuesday after jumping from a bus on a remote Papua New Guinea island, almost five years after he was sent there by Australia, officials said.
Sydney, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd May, 2018 ) :A Rohingya refugee from Myanmar died Tuesday after jumping from a bus on a remote Papua New Guinea island, almost five years after he was sent there by Australia, officials said.
Canberra has sent asylum-seekers who try to enter the country by boat to camps on PNG's Manus Island or Nauru in the Pacific for processing, with those found to be refugees barred from resettling in Australia.
The harsh policy is meant to deter people embarking on treacherous sea journeys, but the United Nations and other rights groups have criticised the camps' conditions and long detention periods. Australia's home affairs department confirmed the death but did not provide further details.
The Refugee Action Coalition's Ian Rintoul told AFP the man, a 32-year-old called Salim, was believed to have jumped from a moving bus near a refugee transition centre and was struck by its wheels, dying at the scene.
Most asylum-seekers on Manus believed the man's death was a suicide, according to a statement from the coalition. He was the seventh asylum-seeker to die on Manus since Canberra's offshore detention regime began in July 2013, in addition to three others who died on Nauru over the same period, Rintoul said.
"The Rohingyan refugee had suffered for a long time with a medical problem" and had previously been sent to Australia for treatment, he added in a statement.
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