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Australia decided to use Youtube as a propaganda tool in order to dissuade immigrants from taking the dangerous journey from Indonesia to Christmas Island. Thus, the government will have the immigrants filmed as they are deported toward Malaysia, and the films posted on the famous website.
The program to upload to the Youtube images of people with pixelated faces being deported to Malaysia will have as a slogan “No to people smuggling!”
Australia reached a “Malaysian solution,” by which it will send 800 new arrivals and will take in exchange 4,000 certified refugees. The first such group is expected to arrive on the territory of the Christmas Island this week, after being picked up in Australian waters on Sunday.
The people will be tended to once they arrive on Christmas Island, their health will be checked, instructions will be given, and then they will be sent to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The process will be filmed and then posted on Youtube in hope that it will send a powerful message to the people in Indonesia who want to come to Australia that if they pay smugglers to introduce them in Australia they will end up in Malaysia.
Australian immigration minister Chris Bowen expressed confidence that the people will get their message even though they are desperate and the people-smugglers lie to them by assuring that the situation will not apply to them.
He added that the people in the region watch very closely the developments in Australia and that the asylum seekers know that this country has changed policy toward them.
The measure is seen as a means to make sure that people do not die anymore while trying to reach the shores of Christmas Island. Last year 50 Indonesian people lost their lives this way.
Riot Police on Christmas Island
Australia has used Youtube to broadcast this kind of message before, but now they are filming real people being deported to Malaysia.
Julia Gillard, Australian Prime Minister, staked her reputation on the solution she announced in May, by which 800 people “smuggled” into Australia’s territory will be returned to Malaysia, and in exchange Australia would take in 4,000 real refugees over four years.
Gillard described the move as a “big blow” to the people-smugglers, and added that if someone wants to come to Australia by smuggling they risk going back to Malaysia and line up at the queue again.
She anticipated resistance, protests and even legal challenges but maintained that the government’s determination to put an end to people smuggling activity is unshaken.
The measure was dictated also by the riots of the people who are already in the asylum centers in Australia.
Gillard said that assessment centers will be opened in Papua and in other parts of Malaysia, and denied that the project has anything to do with Howard’s Pacific solution, provided that, in her opinion, the Malaysian solution is not unilateral, but a rather regional approach to tackle the problem of people smuggling.
Meanwhile, police troops are preparing on Christmas Island with full gear to face the possible riots of the 54 asylum seekers who will arrive shortly on this territory.
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