Australia Tortures Asylum Seeker, Blames the Post Office
The UN committee against torture released its decision, stating Australia breached international obligations by exposing an Iranian asylum seeker to 'serious violence' in detention. The asylum seeker arrived on Christmas Island in 2013, fleeing persecution. Australia's defense is a bewildering 'it wasn't us, it was Papua New Guinea' – despite Australia designing, funding, and ultimately
controlling the notorious Manus Island detention facility. One might wonder who, exactly, was paying the bills and calling the shots if not Australia itself? This isn't Australia's first rodeo denying culpability while crafting policies that deliberately inflict cruelty. Their offshore processing regime has been widely criticized by human rights organizations for decades, yet successive
governments persist in a policy framework that consistently outsources human suffering. Apparently, if you build the cage but pay someone else to staff it, the torture isn't really *your* torture. What a convenient definition of responsibility.