-- What weasels these refugee advocates really are.. all about human rights for refugees and their 'suffering', right... I feel sorry for these kids, caught up in the whirlwind of left wing lunacy.
The teenage sons of Australia's highest-profile asylum-seekers, the Bakhtiyari family, have apologised to the Howard Government for the "lies" they now say prompted their deportation. Alamdar, 16, and Montazar, 14, claim to have been "used" by refugee advocates and lawyers, who they say ruined their chances of remaining in Australia and forced their deportation to Pakistan in December last year.
The boys came to national prominence in 2002 when refugee activists deposited them at the British consulate in Melbourne and demanded they be given asylum after facilitating their escape from the now-defunct Woomera detention centre.
"I would like to say sorry to the Government," Alamdar said, speaking in the Pakistani city of Lahore. "I don't blame the Australian Government for all this ... I blame those who said they were helping us but they were not." He blamed "lawyers" and other supporters, saying "they have nothing to do with our family any more". "It was all the advocates, all the lawyers who were forcing us to fight against the Government.
"The lawyers wanted all the asylum-seekers to be free at once ... the Government didn't want it, so they were always blaming the Government for not doing the right thing and they used our family for all that." He said some of those who claimed to be helping the family had just wanted to "become famous", adding that the same people had not called them once since their deportation 10 months ago.
Its a free kick to the government of the day, its all about the catchy phrase and jolly protest, grab a few headlines, promote some wild cause, waste taxpayers money etc, they don't give a crap about you young man.
Alamdar's comments were also perceived as an attack on the Refugee Action Coalition, which co-ordinated the British consulate episode. "They made a plan for us. I wasn't going to go to the British consulate, but the plan was made," Alamdar said. "We were taken and used."
Can we expect the refugee advocates to take some responsibility, offcourse not, its always someone else's fault.
But Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said the consulate invasion "highlighted the hypocrisy of both the Australian and British Governments ... I don't think it was a blow to their cause at all," he said. "I think the Australian public and refugee campaign owes a lot to the Bakhtiyaris for what their suffering revealed about how the Government treated refugees."
Perhaps they can learn something from the Immigration minister and the Howard government they so hate, Minister Vanstone has accepted the finding of a report into the Vivian Alvarez fiasco and is going to start making improvements.
The teenage sons of Australia's highest-profile asylum-seekers, the Bakhtiyari family, have apologised to the Howard Government for the "lies" they now say prompted their deportation. Alamdar, 16, and Montazar, 14, claim to have been "used" by refugee advocates and lawyers, who they say ruined their chances of remaining in Australia and forced their deportation to Pakistan in December last year.
The boys came to national prominence in 2002 when refugee activists deposited them at the British consulate in Melbourne and demanded they be given asylum after facilitating their escape from the now-defunct Woomera detention centre.
"I would like to say sorry to the Government," Alamdar said, speaking in the Pakistani city of Lahore. "I don't blame the Australian Government for all this ... I blame those who said they were helping us but they were not." He blamed "lawyers" and other supporters, saying "they have nothing to do with our family any more". "It was all the advocates, all the lawyers who were forcing us to fight against the Government.
"The lawyers wanted all the asylum-seekers to be free at once ... the Government didn't want it, so they were always blaming the Government for not doing the right thing and they used our family for all that." He said some of those who claimed to be helping the family had just wanted to "become famous", adding that the same people had not called them once since their deportation 10 months ago.
Its a free kick to the government of the day, its all about the catchy phrase and jolly protest, grab a few headlines, promote some wild cause, waste taxpayers money etc, they don't give a crap about you young man.
Alamdar's comments were also perceived as an attack on the Refugee Action Coalition, which co-ordinated the British consulate episode. "They made a plan for us. I wasn't going to go to the British consulate, but the plan was made," Alamdar said. "We were taken and used."
Can we expect the refugee advocates to take some responsibility, offcourse not, its always someone else's fault.
But Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said the consulate invasion "highlighted the hypocrisy of both the Australian and British Governments ... I don't think it was a blow to their cause at all," he said. "I think the Australian public and refugee campaign owes a lot to the Bakhtiyaris for what their suffering revealed about how the Government treated refugees."
Perhaps they can learn something from the Immigration minister and the Howard government they so hate, Minister Vanstone has accepted the finding of a report into the Vivian Alvarez fiasco and is going to start making improvements.
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