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Critics slam South Korea for denying refugee status to Yemenis
2018-10-19
That’s exactly the kind of thing critics do, and sometimes they’re right.
[DAWN] South Korean progressives on Thursday accused the government of caving into xenophobic sentiment by rejecting a plea for refugee status by hundreds of asylum seekers from war-ravaged Yemen, whose arrival on a resort island earlier this year fired up the rubes.

Justice Party front man Choi Seok said South Korea was neglecting its responsibility as a member of the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
 and letting public sentiment influence critical decisions on human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
"The Yemeni refugees have risked every danger to come to our country, just so that they could survive," Choi said.

"It's no different from the people of our own country half a century ago when they wandered around foreign countries as refugees through war and division. We should no longer ignore the voices of people who seek to live."

South Korea's Justice Ministry on Wednesday said it would not grant refugee status to nearly 400 Yemenis, saying instead it would issue one-year humanitarian stays to 339 of them.

The ministry rejected stay permits for 34 asylum seekers but said they could appeal, and postponed decisions for another 85 applicants, citing the need for further interviews.

Posted by:Fred

#5  As I recall, the 400 or so Yemenis were quite 'well-to-do' and were really looking for a US satellite to serve as a visa gateway rather than as a refuge.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-10-19 08:46  

#4  Yemen is not near SK.

There's no reason to go to SK apart from economic parasitism.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-10-19 07:20  

#3  Send them to a Muslim country, like Germany or Britain.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-10-19 06:25  

#2  Justice Party
Posted by: Rupert Ghibelline8142   2018-10-19 01:06  

#1  Fine. Progressives can host the families. When they get tired of goats running around the back yard, maybe they'll learn.
Posted by: gorb   2018-10-19 00:48  

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