Asylum seekers torch Australian detention centre in night of riots
21st April 2011
During a night of rioting, security guards were attacked with fire extinguishers and pelted with roof tiles and timber in one of the most serious eruptions of violence among asylum-seekers in Australia, where the government’s policy of indefinite detention is a sensitive political issue.
Sounds like a good opportunity to deport these people, who obviously aren’t the sort you want to allow into your country. Nice that they cleared that up.
By daybreak, the fires had been extinguished and the smouldering remains of buildings housing a laundry, kitchen and medical centre could be seen, but the authorities were still struggling to contain the situation within the centre. Police were trying to coax seven asylum seekers from the roof of one building. The group had erected a sign reading “we need help”.
In a rightly ordered society, they’d be required to sleep out in the open, now that they’ve burned their quarters to the ground. Perhaps that would make the necessary connection between actions and consequences that has too often been lost in these degenerate modern times.
But refugee rights groups have said the violence was an act of desperation by people who had been detained for almost two years.
Hey, they could always go back where they came from. I don’t suppose they’re being charged for the free room & board that the Australian government is supplying them. ‘Act of desperation’? No, act of petulant impatience who respond to not getting what they want when they want it with violence, because they see that it gets results everywhere else.