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🧵The views today's propaganda embeds in people will be hard if not impossible to change. Neurologically, we tend to hold on to what we first come to believe - about ourselves & about others. #StopTheBoats will do lasting damage by planting & cementing deeply flawed convictions.
2/ My German nan, born in 1914, was a profoundly unpolitical person, her interests entirely elsewhere. She wasn't a great intellect, but equally not ignorant. In the 30s, she worked in an office & had an English boyfriend whom she visited in the UK in 1938.
3/ She also lived through Nazism as a young adult. She fled the GDR w/ her (German) husband in 1953 & felt at home in West Germany, for economic reasons more than political conviction. She took times as they were & adapted. A comfortable life, travel, clothes, that was her focus.
@SarahRubyWrites @jokowi In theory, Indonesia is responsible.
(#IDG=Indo immigration dept)
However, Indonesia is the 3rd country, with #Manus & #Nauru, that Australia pays to use refugees as 'rocks to block the sea'.
Aus pays #IOM to run refugee community housing & 13 detention centres in #Indonesia.
(#IDG=Indo immigration dept)
However, Indonesia is the 3rd country, with #Manus & #Nauru, that Australia pays to use refugees as 'rocks to block the sea'.
Aus pays #IOM to run refugee community housing & 13 detention centres in #Indonesia.
@SarahRubyWrites @jokowi #UNHCR Indonesia received less & less funding, none this year, to process refugees in Indonesia for resettlement.
Australia took this 'humanitarian aid' & gave it to #IOM to detain refugees to force voluntary returns.
Now IOM had funding cut, new refugees sleeping in streets.
Australia took this 'humanitarian aid' & gave it to #IOM to detain refugees to force voluntary returns.
Now IOM had funding cut, new refugees sleeping in streets.
@SarahRubyWrites @jokowi So big backlog of asylum seekers awaiting UNHCR processing due to no funds.
No new admissions to #IOM or even detention in Indonesia since April 2018.
Refugees queue to get IN to detention, live in streets outside IDC's. No money, no accommodation, live on handouts.
No new admissions to #IOM or even detention in Indonesia since April 2018.
Refugees queue to get IN to detention, live in streets outside IDC's. No money, no accommodation, live on handouts.
