NAURU/AT SEA: ABOUT 100 ASYLUM SEEKERS ARE OFFLOADED ONTO NAURU/ SOME IRAQIS REFUSE TO DISEMBARK

Record ID: 648682

  • Title: NAURU/AT SEA: ABOUT 100 ASYLUM SEEKERS ARE OFFLOADED ONTO NAURU/ SOME IRAQIS REFUSE TO DISEMBARK
  • Date: 18th September 2001
  • Summary: (U2) NAURU (SEPTEMBER 18, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. MV POLICE ON SHORE 0.04 2. WIDE MANOORA AT SEA 0.11 (U2) NAURU (SEPTEMBER 19, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 3. PAN BEACH; LV MANOORA CREW LOADING BARGES WITH ASYLUM SEEKERS 0.24 4. SLV BARGES PULLING AWAY FROM THE MANOORA 0.29 5. SLV LOCAL FISHERMEN LOOKING ON 0.32 6. WIDE BARGE WITH REFUGEES COMING IN 0.38 7. SLV/MV REFUGEES ABOARD BARGE, MV POLICE ON SHORE (4 SHOTS) 1.10 8. MV LOCALS CLAPPING 1.14 9. MV REFUGEES COME OFF BARGE 1.21 10. SLV REFUGEES QUEUING ON SHORE 1.23 11. SLVLOCALS DANCING AT WELCOMING CEREMONY (NAURU PRESIDENT IN THE CAR BEHIND THE DANCERS) 1.31 12. MV LOCALS OFFERING FLOWERS TO REFUGEES 1.35 13. MV CROWD; MORE OF DANCING (3 SHOTS) 1.48 14. MV REFUGEES GO ABOARD BUS; SV ON BUS (2 SHOTS) 2.01 15. MV REFUGEES IN SCHOOL BUS ARRIVING AT CAMP; SV BUS (2 SHOTS) 2.17 16. VARIOUS OF REFUGEES AT RECEPTION CENTRE IN TENT IN CAMP (3 SHOTS) 2.33 17. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) MARK GETCHELL OF THE IOM AT THE CAMP SAYING: "The people who have come here will be very happy to get off the ship and come here." 2.38 18. PAN TENTS 2.45 19. CU INTERIOR TENT COVERED WITH PLASTIC SHEETS 2.49 20. MV TENTS; MV GETCHELL PREPARING TENTS (2 SHOTS) 2.58 21. SV GETCHELL INSPECTING TENTS 3.01 23. MV TENT 3.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd October 2001 13:00
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  • Location: NAURU
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  • Country: AT SEA Nauru
  • Reuters ID: LVAEA7N068YJK46MYKQ6XAK6AZO5
  • Story Text: About 100 asylum seekers have been offloaded onto the
    tiny Pacific island of Nauru even though some Iraqis are
    refusing to disembark.



    For the first 100 refugees to come off HMAS Manoora on
    Wednesday (September 19) this was the end a three-week
    standoff between Australia and hundreds of asylum seekers,
    some of whom were rescued from a sinking Indonesian ferry in
    the Indian Ocean on August 26.

    Canberra has refused to allow the mostly Afghan refugees
    to set foot in Australia, opting instead to pay Nauru to
    process their claims.

    Nauru, the world's smallest republic, is a 21 square km
    (eight square mile) island between Australia and Hawaii.

    Australia's tough stance in rejecting the boat people has
    drawn international outrage but is widely supported by
    Australian voters and is shaping up as a key issue in an
    expected November general election.

    For a week, the Australian army has struggled to build
    makeshift tin and plastic accommodation for the asylum-seekers
    on a barren sports field, surrounded by security fences, on
    Nauru.

    Mark Getchell, of the International Organisation of
    Migration, (IOM), said those who had come off the boat would
    be relieved.

    "The people who have come here will be very happy to get
    off the ship and come here," he said.

    Australia dug into a hardline stance against a rising
    tide of illegal immigrants when it turned away 433 boatpeople
    rescued from an Indonesian ferry by the Norwegian freighter
    Tampa on August 26.



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