AP report on WOOMERA
k | 29.03.2002 09:34
AP report on WOOMERA AP report on WOOMERA - refugees freed!!!
AP report on WOOMERA (english)
by ap 1:06am Fri Mar 29 '02 (Modified on 1:18am Fri Mar 29 '02)
WOOMERA, Australia –– About a dozen asylum seekers including one child scaled two razor wire-topped fences Friday to escape from an Outback detention center as hundreds of protesters rioted outside.
Some of the refugees appeared to be bleeding after scrambling over the chain-link fences surrounding the Woomera Detention Center in central Australia.
Protesters immediately put new clothes on the refugees and whisked them away from police, who then began scuffling with demonstrators outside the camp.
Ten police on horseback rode into the crowd in an attempt to quell the escalating violence.
The camp has often been the scene of protests and hunger strikes by refugees held inside under Australia's policy of detaining all asylum seekers who arrive in the country illegally.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A...
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detainees escaping, fences come down! (english)
by yr fact checkin' cuz 1:18am Fri Mar 29 '02
According to the report on melbourne.indymedia,
the fences at the Woomera detention centre have come down,
there's about 200 people protesting in the camp and about
300 outside the fences.
more info at
melbourne.indymedia.org
AP report on WOOMERA (english)
by ap 1:06am Fri Mar 29 '02 (Modified on 1:18am Fri Mar 29 '02)
WOOMERA, Australia –– About a dozen asylum seekers including one child scaled two razor wire-topped fences Friday to escape from an Outback detention center as hundreds of protesters rioted outside.
Some of the refugees appeared to be bleeding after scrambling over the chain-link fences surrounding the Woomera Detention Center in central Australia.
Protesters immediately put new clothes on the refugees and whisked them away from police, who then began scuffling with demonstrators outside the camp.
Ten police on horseback rode into the crowd in an attempt to quell the escalating violence.
The camp has often been the scene of protests and hunger strikes by refugees held inside under Australia's policy of detaining all asylum seekers who arrive in the country illegally.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A...
add your own comments
detainees escaping, fences come down! (english)
by yr fact checkin' cuz 1:18am Fri Mar 29 '02
According to the report on melbourne.indymedia,
the fences at the Woomera detention centre have come down,
there's about 200 people protesting in the camp and about
300 outside the fences.
more info at
melbourne.indymedia.org
k