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International-UN-NGOs
Boat people too have rights
2015-05-28
[DAWN] TOMORROW’S regional meeting in Thailand must find some humane answers to the plight of thousands of homeless people floating on the sea, if the international community does not wish to be arraigned for its callous disregard for the sanctity of human life.
Oh wait! Those are the wrong 'boat people' !
Few issues expose the hollowness of the global rhetoric about human rights to a greater extent than the lack of understanding shown for homeless/stateless refugees and poor men and women seeking escape from persecution, hunger, and a life without hope.

The discovery of mass graves in Malaysia and Thailand at sites of camps operated by gangs of traffickers has added an utterly grisly chapter to the migrants’ tale of unimaginable suffering. Evidence already available suggests that some of the migrants were tortured and killed by their handlers.
Posted by:Fred

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