Violence against Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Manus Island and the Clearing of Lombrom Naval Base
NOVANEWS
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Global Research
Featured image: PNG Defence Force Base Lombrum is located in Papua New Guinea (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
It was another etching in a chronicle of extended violence. For days, resistance by refugees and asylum seekers against forced removal from the Lombrom Naval Base on Manus Island had taken very public form. Images of defiance and distress were receiving international attention. With no electricity, with water supplies destroyed, things were getting dire.
As the weekend dawned, PNG officials were claiming that the remaining 328 men from the base had been moved to new camps in Lorengau. To these can be added the 50 men or so forcibly removed a day prior. Journalists from the ABC noted the use of 12 buses taking men and goods t...