No advantage, no work, dwindling hope: the asylum seeker’s lot
The result of Labor immigration policy is sanity-sapping limbo, people fleeing some of the world’s most troubled regions find Lenore Taylor The seven nervous Afghan men sitting on the floor along one wall of the tiny, dark flat in Melbourne’s outer west are the forgotten cargo from the boats that couldn’t be stopped. [...]
Asylum seekers: Meet the men, women and children who never made it to Australia
May 27, 2013 2 Comments
SMARTLY dressed with his arm around his father’s shoulder, toddler Taha Fiazi looks curiously at the camera for a final portrait before his family were to board a boat for Australia. Taha, his father Ezatullah and mother Hakima Abasi left Indonesia last August full of hope for a new life free of the persecution they [...]
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Esmael Darman Afghan children running away from the scene of the recent suicide attack in Kabul. Photo: Reuters Afghanistani citizens have been going through long periods of war for over the past 30 years. By now, millions have been displaced, hundreds of thousands killed or disabled, and the major infrastructures seriously damaged. Nevertheless, the war [...]
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By Jeffrey Stern Imagine that you live in Afghanistan. Your ancestors have lived there for hundreds of years, but you are a minority. In fact, you are a minority two times over, because the religion you practice is different from the one most people practice, and the way you look is different from the way [...]
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May 1, 2013| According to Hazara sources and Jang Karachi News, two Hazaras are killed and one critically wounded in a targeted attack in the SultanAbad area of Monghopir in Karachi, Pakistan. According to Jang News Karachi, two unidentified terrorists on motorcycles approached the Katarko school and knocked at the closed door. Upon opening the small [...]
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By DECLAN WALSH KARACHI, Pakistan — Stranded in a dingy hotel in the heart of this port city, waiting for the smuggler’s call, Hussain felt at once trapped and poised for freedom. Behind lay his hometown, Quetta, the city in western Pakistan that has become a killing ground for Sunni sectarian death squads that hunt [...]
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by Carly West “It is our religious duty to kill all Shias… in all of Pakistan, especially Quetta, we will continue our successful jihad against the Shia Hazara and Pakistan will become a graveyard for them.” -A letter of intent circulated by the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) in 2011 Public domain image from Wikimedia Commons The Pakistani [...]
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By Gul Yousafzai (Reuters) – A prominent leader of Pakistan’s ethnic Hazara minority narrowly escaped a suicide attack that killed six people on Tuesday, underscoring the growing threat militants pose to secular politicians in the run-up to next month’s general elections. The blast in Quetta was the worst attack since a series of bombings in [...]
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By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan, April 23 (Reuters) – A prominent leader of Pakistan’s ethnic Hazara minority narrowly escaped a suicide attack that killed six people on Tuesday, underscoring the growing threat militants pose to secular politicians in the run-up to next month’s general elections. The blast in Quetta was the worst attack since a [...]
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Notorious terrorists of outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba (Yazeed) and Taliban on Friday shot injured a Hazara in Quetta Balochistan ahead of General elections. The gory incident took place in Wahdat Colony Bus Stop No2 Quetta. Photo Archive, Hazara genocide in quetta …………… A Hazara, Mohammad Bashir son of Shah Wali was hit by the Saudi funded terrorists [...]
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