Nauruan MOU and Dabwido -- Devil not in Him

Former Nauruan President Dabwido died at the young age of 46, was regretting about the MOU he had signed on 2012 for Offshore Detention. Actually, that MOU, by itself, may not be blamed entirely for the ill treatments and sufferings endured by the offshore asylum-seekers. The real culprit for this suffering, we can trace back to September 2011, where Malaysian deal was struck down by the High Court, the then Labour Government tried to circumvent that HCA ruling. The Australian Parliament had succeeded in its intent in legislating "the designation of a country to be a regional processing country need not be determined by reference to the international obligations or domestic law of that country." Basically, the executive government, by June 2014 HCA ruling, is getting powers re: boat arrivals;

Former Nauruan President Sprent Dabwido's deathbed interview, courtesy ProjectTV.

• the Minister does not need to have regard to UNHCR’s advice on the matter, the regional processing country’s international or domestic law, or its capacity to implement those obligations;
• The Parliament has succeeded in its intention to ‘restor[e] to the executive the power to manage one of a government’s core functions - control of a nation’s borders’
• Australia’s migration legislation may therefore no longer ‘respond’ to its international obligations under the Refugee Convention.(see Kaldor Centre report)

Therefore, by September 2014, PM Abbott and his LNP Government was seen busy appointing the Chief of Transfield Services P/L to his offices. The LNP Government necessarily set aside UN Refugee Convention, as the Immigration Minister need not "respond" to that Convention. Enslavement scheme on Nauru and Manus was on the way, as one would note.

Australian Governments (Labor & LNP) may spit dummy on UN Refugee Convention at times; but they cannot get away from humanitarian obligations they have on those offshore asylum-seekers. No human person must be held in slavery, either in time of war or in peace, the rule 94 of Geneva Convention said. Let say if Australian government have captured the prisoners of war, even these "enemy combatants" will not be allowed to be enslaved. Let alone those offshore asylum-seekers. Australians are to be reminded about the stories of POWs on notorious Burma-Thailand railways during WW-II. Those perpetrators should well note, the 1949 Geneva Convention was to prevent such occurrences of ill treatments human persons akin to slavery.

I do pray for Sprent Dabwido that I see no devil in him nor his action signing MOU; May Lord agrees with me; May his soul Rest In Peace.

To those perpetrators, be assured, justice (i.e. hell4u) is coming & I pray for you too. Heaven has no rage and Hell heath no fury, justice must come.

-- U Ne Oo, NetIPR.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/08/sprent-dabwido-former-naur...

(HCA s156/2013)
https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/publication/plaintiff-s1562013-cons...

ProjectTV report.
https://www.facebook.com/TheProjectTV/posts/10156239878478441

Rule 94, Geneva Convention.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_rul_rule94