Amnesty International is accusing Australia of bribing human traffickers to go away -- endangering boatloads of asylum seekers via a secretive pogrom dubbed ‘Operation Sovereign Borders.’
Australian authorities have denied the watch-group’s claim that they’re committing a “transnational crime” by illicitly paying smugglers to turn their ships around and go someplace else.
Millions of immigrants from war-torn regions like the middle East and Africa are now seeking refuge in other countries; in the past few years creating a tidal wave of displaced humanity that the world has never witnessed before.
Most of these desperate families pay traffickers all of their life savings for safe havens on foreign shores, fleeing their ravaged homelands with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
Far too often though, and despite being handsomely compensated, the men they’re trusting with their money and their lives abandon them in the middle of nowhere, even leaving them to die.
Amnesty International says Australia’s inhumane policy is increasing the likelihood that these vulnerable populations will be abused and exploited in such a manner. Not just by individual profiteers anymore, but also by governments who don’t want them.
The human rights organization also accuses the Aussies’ Border Force of illegally intercepting migrant vessels before they reach their waters; and even beating asylum seekers and forcing them from seaworthy vessels onto inferior, overcrowded ones.
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