Why is the ABC protecting the UNHCR Australia branch?



https://twitter.com/UNrefugees/status/725504289578180608


https://twitter.com/LexiMetherell/status/725597793667022848


Up until yesterday, when a man set fire to himself in front of their representatives on Nauru, the UNHCR Australia branch has deflected any queries about the plight of refugees and asylum seekers in South East Asia to the "Bangkok office".
 
That their efforts are expended fundraising and caring about refugees anywhere but in our region - especially those imprisoned in Australia, and on Nauru, Manus and Christmas Island - has never been scrutinised.
 
They have previously assisted the Australian government in its subversion of the right to seek asylum by "welcoming" its lies about the release of refugees on Nauru in October 2015.


http://www.unhcr.org/56128b5b6.html

 
It is doubtful that they are suddenly "concerned" about the refugees, and more likely their secretive "monitoring mission" to do whatever it is they were doing, has been disrupted.
 
After the PNG Supreme Court decision, and yesterday's events, why any representative from any aid agency or NGO would say anything other than "release the men, women and children on Manus, Nauru and Christmas Island immediately, and bring them to Australia" is simply mind boggling.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-25/refugee-on-manus-hopes-png-will-reconsider-case-after-protest/7356324


http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/18/manus-island-detainees-plead-anywhere-but-papua-new-guinea


https://twitter.com/InsurrectNews/status/724495342675206144

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