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Thousands of Myanmar citizens in Australia at risk of being deported to violence back home

Thousands of Myanmar citizens in Australia at risk of being deported to violence back home

Apr 12, 2021 1 min, 3 secs

The Morrison government faces fresh calls to allow more than 3,000 Myanmarese citizens to stay in Australia once their visas expire, amid fears about the dangers they face if forced to return home.

“No one should be involuntarily deported to Myanmar if they don’t want to go back,” the opposition’s foreign affairs spokesperson, Penny Wong, and her home affairs colleague, Kristina Keneally, said in the letter to the government.

“We are therefore urging the government to enable Myanmar nationals on temporary visas in Australia to extend their stay,” they told the foreign minister, Marise Payne, the home affairs minister, Karen Andrews, and the immigration minister, Alex Hawke.

Joel MacKay, a campaigner with Amnesty International Australia, said: “The Australian government can’t send people back to Myanmar where people are being shot in the street and human rights violations are occurring regularly.

Dave Sharma, the government MP who chairs the foreign affairs and aid subcommittee, said there was “clearly a high degree of community concern within Australia about the escalating violence and rising death toll in Myanmar, and the increasingly inhumane behaviour of the military leadership there.”.

The Australian government has said it is considering expanding sanctions in response to the violence in Myanmar, but hasn’t given a deadline for a decision.

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