"This morning's actions show that whatever they do, wherever they go, their safety cannot be guaranteed until they are evacuated from Papua New Guinea.Standoff 2 both honors its prequel's legacy and explores the first-person shooter format, a novelty for the series. "After four and a half years of limbo and uncertainty they still have nowhere safe to go," she said.
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"UNHCR reminds Australia of its obligation to take full responsibility and provide effective protection, safety and lasting solutions for all refugees and asylum-seekers in cooperation with the Papua New Guinean authorities," the organisation said in a statement Thursday.Īfter Australia withdrew from the Manus camp, PNG police initially engaged in an effort dubbed "Helpim Friends" to entice refugees to move voluntarily to the new centres.Ībout 200 men complied, but 400 remained, leading to police raids Thursday and Friday to forcibly clear the camp.Īmy Frew, a lawyer at the Australia-based Human Rights Law Centre, said the violent resolution of the standoff bode ill for the refugees' future. The UN refugee agency UNHCR expressed special concern this week when PNG police moved into the camp to force remaining refugees to leave. Turnbull's government has come under sharp international criticism during the standoff in Manus as conditions for the detainees deteriorated. "That is precisely what you should do if you're in a foreign country, you should comply with the laws of that other country." "They're complying with the lawful directions of the PNG authorities and moving to the alternative facilities available to them and that's as they should," he said. They also worried that once no longer under Australian control they would lose any leverage they had for obtaining resettlement in third countries.Īustralian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, in welcoming the end of the confrontation at Manus Friday, did stress that the refugees were now under PNG authority. The refugees refused to move, fearing for their safety among a local population where many opposed their presence. Only 24 refugees have moved to the US.Īround 600 men, most of them with refugee status, were left stuck on Manus since 2013 with diminishing hope of resettlement.įollowing the PNG court ruling, Australia declared Manus closed on October 31 and shut off supplies of food, water and electricity to the camp so detainees would move voluntarily to the PNG-managed "transition centres".
The camps were described as "processing centres" where authorities would determine the legal status of detainees and then arrange resettlement for verified refugees.īut the resettlement policy stalled, with an agreement reached with former US president Barack Obama to take a number of the refugees put on hold when Donald Trump was elected a year ago. The military have taken back their base," PNG police spokesman Dominic Kakas told AFP.Īustralia's Immigration Minister Peter Dutton welcomed the news, and accused refugees and their advocates of making "inaccurate and exaggerated claims of violence and injuries" during the police operation.Ĭanberra set up the Manus camp and a similar complex on the Pacific island nation of Nauru under a policy of "offshore detention" designed to choke off the flow of migrants trying to reach Australia by boat.
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