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Keywords: Uighurs

INTERNATIONAL

Common ground amid polarised China debate
- Andrew Hamilton
- 03 December 2019
5 Comments
If China spies upon Australia, Australia spied on East Timor. If China detains Uighurs in harsh conditions, so has Australia detained people in brutal and demeaning conditions on Manus Island. If China lays out money to nations on our region to secure its national interests, so does Australia, most notably to Nauru and PNG.
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AUSTRALIA

Cash for refugees shames both Australia and Cambodia
- Andrew Hamilton
- 23 October 2014
24 Comments
Cambodia's agreement with Australia to receive refugees from Nauru is moving to implementation. The UN and other critics are saying it breaches Australia’s responsibility to provide protection for refugees. Clearly the Australian Government is doing it for the political benefit and Cambodia is in it for the money. It can be compared to surrogacy agreements in which poor Asian women are paid to bear children for wealthy Australian couples.
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INTERNATIONAL

Cambodia's patchy refugee record
- Denise Coghlan
- 24 June 2014
5 Comments
In 2009 Cambodia enacted its own laws concerning refugees. If asylum seekers are found to be refugees they are given a prakas that allows them to stay legally in Cambodia but which is not accepted as a proof of identity by most employers, businesses and banks. The sense of insecurity of those seeking asylum is heightened by the memory of the 29 Uighur asylum seekers who in 1995 were deported from Cambodia to China at gun point.
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INTERNATIONAL

Gifts of blood follow Kunming horror
- Evan Ellis
- 07 March 2014
4 Comments
My tutor in Kunming was deeply shaken by the mass stabbings last weekend that left 29 civilians dead. When Chinese authorities put out a request for blood donors in the city, giving blood was all she wanted to do. The city's blood banks have struggled to accommodate the throng of willing donors, the upturned arms of ordinary citizens replacing some of the blood spilt by the long knives. This strikes me as profoundly Eucharistic.
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AUSTRALIA

Australia flouting international law over refugees
- Justin Glyn
- 30 August 2011
9 Comments
By pursuing the refugee swap deal with Malaysia, Australia may be in breach of one of the most serious prohibitions in international law. This raises the question of what Australia's attitude is to other fundamenal norms of international law. This question goes well beyond issues of refugee protection.
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RELIGION

Uighurs failed by Cambodia's sham refugee law
- Frank Brennan
- 03 March 2010
6 Comments
In June last year a solitary Uighur from Xinjiang province arrived in Phnom Penh seeking asylum. On 18 December he and 21 other Uighur asylum seekers were praying when Cambodian police entered their safe house and abducted them at gunpoint.
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MEDIA

China turns tables on Australia's Indian racism
- Peter Hodge
- 27 January 2010
14 Comments
When western campaigners used the Beijing Olympics to promote the Tibet issue, the Chinese felt the attention was sensationalist and unfair. So it's no surprise the Chinese media took notice when violence against foreign students in Australia came to prominence.
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INTERNATIONAL

Precarious lives: Involuntary displacement of people in Asia Pacific today
- Mark Raper
- 18 January 2010
Significant agreement was achieved in Copenhagen on the present and future forcible displacement of people because of climate change and environmental degradation. Can global cooperation for the protection of vulnerable displaced persons be renewed to meet new circumstances?
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EUREKA STREET TV

Not just any old superpower
- Peter Kirkwood
- 14 August 2009
4 Comments
Attempts by the Chinese Government to stop a documentary about Uighur activist and leader Rebiya Kadeer from screening in Melbourne remind us that China is a vast country governed by very different values to our own.
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INTERNATIONAL

Asylum seekers good for Australia's soul
- Irfan Yusuf
- 14 August 2009
11 Comments
According to P. J. O'Rourke, today's asylum seekers are tomorrow's 'really good Australians'. Australia has established Uighur and Turkish communities and could easily accommodate the few remaining ex-Gitmo Uighurs.
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AUSTRALIA

A soft voice for China's wild west
- Paul Rule
- 09 July 2009
3 Comments
It is hard to imagine any solution to the discontent in Xinjiang without a general change in the political culture of China. That seems a distant prospect indeed. For Australia's part, a soft and friendly voice may do more than condemnation or contention.
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Keywords: Uighurs