Transfer of Rwandan suspected murderers highlights government’s hypocrisy over refugee policy
the offshore camps inhumane and"immensely harmful." Reports of refugees being abused and self-harming were rife. And then there was the financial cost — an average of €350,000 per person per year.
The transfer of the Rwandans sheds new light on those comments — and highlights the Australian government's hypocrisy. “That’s just insane,” said Mark Ross, an American safari leader taken hostage and beaten with bamboo canes during the attack two decades ago. “These guys have ended up being bargaining chips, or pawns, in something bigger.”
“The grandchildren wrote in the sand: ‘We love Rhonda and Michelle and we miss you,’” Avis' mother Pauline Jackson told POLITICO. “It was just beautiful.” Jean Strathern recalls she was nervous about her daughter’s Africa trip and tried to talk her out of it. So did an uncle and a local pharmacist who were aware of the genocide in nearby Rwanda a few years earlier. But Michelle Strathern was unconcerned.
“It was huge. We couldn’t go out the door,” Jean said. “The newspapers were full of it. The TV was full of it.” The Stratherns were set to travel to Washington in 2007 to attend and testify at the trial of the three Rwandans, while Avis’ parents don’t recall making a specific plan. Both couples vividly remember their shock at the judge's decision to toss out the case over the torture claims.
“You’re joking,” Jean Strathern said, when told of the development. “You’re absolutely joking. You’re not kidding me, are you? We are absolutely blown away, absolutely. Wow. It makes shivers run down your spine. They’re only two, three hours away on a plane." Mark Avis, who was terrorized in the attack and lost his wife, said he found the Australian decision to take in the alleged perpetrators bizarre.
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