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October 12th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
THE head of Amnesty International has warned Australia’s status as a champion of human rights will be under a cloud when it attends global meetings in coming weeks.
On the last leg of his Australian tour Salil Shetty said he was appalled with the Government’s continued determination to resurrect its scuttled Malaysia people swap deal.
Parliament will consider the move either later today or tomorrow.
Mr Shetty rejected the Government’s argument that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had said Malaysia could be better option for asylum seekers than being held in indefinite detention in Australia.
“It’s very odd Australia wants to compare itself to Malaysia,” he said in Canberra today.
Malaysia was not even a signatory to the refugee convention and knowingly caned its own population, he said.
Mr Shetty predicted the asylum-seeker issue would cloud Australia’s human rights credentials at G20 and Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in coming weeks.
“It can’t say we are a leader but when we get a few thousand refugees coming here we’ll detain them … and send them off to Malaysia.
“It doesn’t make any sense.”
Mr Shetty said the politicisation of the asylum seeker issue came at the cost of the most vulnerable people on the planet.
“They are being treated in a shoddy way,” he said.
Mr Shetty described his meeting this week with Immigration Minister Chris Bowen as “deeply disappointing”.
The minister had repeated the standard lines and refused to recognise Australia’s international obligations.
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