ஈழத்தமிழ் இளைஞர் ஒருவர் சிட்னி தடுப்புமுகாமில் தற்கொலை (காணொளி இணைப்பு)

ஈழத்தமிழ் இளைஞர் ஒருவர் சிட்னி தடுப்புமுகாமில் தற்கொலை செய்து கொண்டுள்ளார்.

சிட்னி குடிவரவு வதிவிட வீடமைப்புத் தொகுதியில், நஞ்சருந்திய நிலையில் மீட்கப்பட்ட இவர் மருத்துவமனைக்கு கொண்டு செல்லப்பட்ட போது உயிரிழந்ததாக அவுஸ்திரேலிய குடிவரவுத் திணைக்களம் அறிவித்துள்ளது.

இன்று அதிகாலை 3 மணியளவில் இவர் மரணமாகியுள்ளார்.

இவரது மரணம் இடம்பெற்ற சூழல் தொடர்பாக விசாரணை நடத்தப்படும் என்று அவுஸ்திரேலிய காவல்துறை அதிகாரிகள் கூறியுள்ளனர்.

வில்லாவூட் தடுப்பு முகாமில் கடந்த ஆண்டு அடுத்தடுத்து நிகழ்ந்த நான்கு தற்கொலைகளை அடுத்து கூரை மீதேறி போராட்டம் நடத்தியவர்களில், இன்று மரணமான இளைஞரும் ஒருவராவார்.

சூட்டி என்று நண்பர்களால் அழைக்கப்பட்ட இவர் அனைவருடனும் நட்புடன் பழகக் கூடியவர் என்றும் அனைவருக்கும் உதவும் மனப்பாங்குடையவர் என்றும் அகதிகளுக்கான நடவடிக்கை கூட்டமைப்பின் பேச்சாளர் இயன் றின்ரோல் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

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Edited October 26, 201114 yr by தமிழ் அரசு

இறந்தவருக்கு ஒரு காதலி இருந்தாராம். அவருக்கு அகதி அந்தஸ்து கிடைத்து முகாமில் இருந்து வெளிவந்துவிட்டார்.

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Refugee 'preparing to marry' before death

He came to Australia to escape persecution and start a new life. He made new friends and fell in love, and was looking forward to marrying his fiancee.

On Wednesday the young Tamil man died in Sydney's Villawood detention centre.

A friend remembered him as a happy person who loved music and dancing and who was looking forward to marrying his fiancee after being released from detention.

Former Iranian detainee Iraj Maghadam met the man while theywere in detention on Christmas Island and the pair became best friends.

"He was so happy to be in Australia and always singing and laughing," Mr Maghadam told AAP.

After being transferred from Christmas Island to Villawood, the man watched as many of his friends were granted permanent residency visas and released into the community, including Iraj and the man's fiancee Sangi.

Mr Maghadam said his friend met Sangi, a young Sri Lankan woman, at Villawood. The pair intended to marry once he was released.

However, once Sangi left detention, her partner began to suffer from depression and started taking antidepressants and sleeping tablets which were prescribed by a doctor at the Villawood detention centre, he said.

An autopsy is yet to establish the cause of the man's death but Mr Maghadam said his friend took an overdose of sleeping tablets on Tuesday night.

"I'm so angry he's dead," Mr Maghadam said.

"My heart is broken. I plead for the detention centres to close.".

He visited his friend at Villawood last week and understood he was frustrated with the long wait for his security clearance.

That was the last time he saw him alive.

He said other friends at Villawood told him of a letter his friend had written to authorities stating that he wanted to kill himself.

However, he said no one did anything to help.

"He was only 27, my best friend, and now he's dead," Mr Maghadam said.

He said his friend fled Sri Lanka over two years ago to escape persecution by the military regime, which had also imprisoned his parents.

* Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14, MensLine Australia on 1300 78 99 78 or Multicultural Mental Health Australia at www.mmha.org.au.</p>

Dead detainee's case file reached Ombudsman too late

Despair ... Shooty Vikadan.

THE Commonwealth Ombudsman's office received a report six days ago about the 27-year-old Tamil detainee who took his life at the Villawood detention centre on Tuesday night.

The report from the Immigration Department had notified the Ombudsman that Jayasaker Jayrathana, known as Shooty Vikadan, had been detained for two years. It should have triggered an interview of the detainee by the Ombudsman's office.

It landed on Allan Asher's desk on the day he resigned after pressure from the federal government. The Ombudman's office said no contact had been made with the detainee.

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The Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, and Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, yesterday described the death as ''a tragedy''. A coronial inquiry and police investigation will be held. The death will increase pressure on the government to reduce detention times in the face of a mounting mental health toll. The Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Catherine Branson, has repeatedly called for detainees awaiting security clearance to be released on bridging visas.

Mr Bowen said Shooty Vikadan was found to be a refugee in August, and had been considered for community detention, but ASIO had given advice that ''it was not appropriate in this case''.

Friends recalled a man who would rush to help the elderly Tamil volunteers who brought traditional food to Sri Lankan asylum seekers at the Villawood detention centre. ''He was a gentleman,'' said Sara Nathan.

A fellow Tamil and neighbour in Villawood's residential housing detention, Yogachandran Rahavan, recalled ''Shooty'' entertaining his children. ''He was very good with my kids. We were paralysed when we heard the news,'' said Mr Rahavan last night, still struggling to find the words to tell his children their playmate was dead.

The Rahavans, who have been refused security clearance by ASIO so must live indefinitely locked up, had planned to do something to cheer up ''Shooty'' yesterday. It was the Diwali Hindu festival, and the detainee, anxious about his young brother and sister left behind in Sri Lanka, was devastated to discover his request to visit a friend, George, outside Villawood to share a meal for the special day had been rejected by Immigration.

Ms Nathan was on the phone to the detainee's distraught girlfriend and former detainee, Sangi, until 3am yesterday, as she broke the news that

''Shooty'' had killed himself by taking poison. Three weeks earlier, ''Shooty'' had asked permission to attend Ms Nathan's daughter's engagement party. Immigration refused.

The detainee's hopes had been raised when he was moved to the family housing compound at Villawood three months ago. But the ASIO security process was taking time.

''He was frustrated with a lot of things, '' said Ms Nathan. ''He had seen a Tamil family split up because of a security clearance - the wife struggling to be a single mother and the father crying. He had seen others attempt suicide.''

He had attended a trauma and torture counselling session.

Mr Rahavan said: ''He was always talking about his brother in Sri Lanka. He didn't have a mother or father.''

The government notified the detainee's family in Sri Lanka of his death yesterday. Inside Villawood, many detainees were in tears, as were staff.

Bala Vigneswaran, of the Australian Tamil Congress, who last saw ''Shooty'' 10 days ago, was surprised that the ''larrikin'', who had taken part in a rooftop protest in September 2010 in response to the suicide of a Fijian detainee, had taken his life.

''He was very disappointed he was not allowed outside the compound. Something snapped,'' said Mr Vigneswaran. He urged the government to speed up the time any asylum seeker spends in detention.

Mr Asher tweeted yesterday about a ''failed asylum system'' and a government that had stopped Ombudsman scrutiny.

An ASIO spokesman said it was not a requirement under the ASIO Act for boat arrivals to be detained during security processing.

''However, upon request, ASIO may provide [the immigration department] with advice on individuals being considered for transfer into community detention,'' the spokesman said.

A spokesman for the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Stephen Blanks, said: ''It's quite wrong for the Minister for Immigration to treat refugees who have not received an ASIO clearance yet as being a threat to the community.''

Last night about 35 people gathered outside Villawood where they held a candlelight vigil. Sydney Tamils were joined by refugee activists as they held a minute's silence while centre security staff watched on. Mr Vigneswaran said he hoped this was the last time he

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Another senseless, tragic death in detention

Pamela Curr

The man who took his life last night in Villawood was a refugee waiting for a security check.

He had been through the rigorous Australian refugee process and found to be a refugee to whom Australia owed protection. Rest in peace Shooty - your death will not be in vain.

Why was he still in detention? That is a question for the Government. In answer to the question - "Does ASIO require irregular maritime arrivals to remain in detention whilst it undertakes its security assessment?" - ASIO has unequivocally stated:

"It is not a requirement under the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 that irregular maritime arrivals (IMAs) remain in detention during the security assessment process. The detention of IMAs is managed by the DIAC, in accordance with Australian Government policy." ASIO ANNUAL REPORT 2011

The Government and the Department of Immigration were informed 18 months ago that ASIO did not require the detention of people during this time. ASIO in frustration put it in their annual report publicly two weeks ago.

So we are left to ask why there are 1,591* refugees unnecessarily in detention awaiting security checks when they have been found to be refugees including the man who lost hope about 3:00am this morning and took his life.

This man had begged to be allowed into community detention. He had Australian friends ready to provide him with accommodation and care. The Department and the Minister knew this and yet chose to keep him in detention. His coronial inquiry will reveal the level of arbitrary abuse which the detention system imposed on this man.

This man died last night because he was in detention.

We are left to ask – how many must die before the Government acts? Is there some arbitrary figure on the Minister's desk at which he will say enough?

The Government has a choice – they can continue long-term detention or they can expand what they have started and release people into community detention on bridging visas. From February to June 1,500 people were quietly released into the community through community detention while their claims are processed - the sky did not fall in. It worked - the community response was fantastic and people's health improved the day they walked out of detention.

There are currently thousands of asylum seekers living in the community on bridging visas throughout Australia while undergoing the refugee determination process. While life is certainly tough for them, they have their freedom and are not detained. Community processing works and is something all asylum seekers should be offered. Detention is against the Government's own detention values, is arbitrary and is harmful – as Shooty's unnecessary death has proven.

I have personally seen the effect that freedom has on people who were detained. A few weeks ago I walked out of a flat in Brisbane with a man who had been released a few days earlier. Even though he was suffering depression and fearful for his family, he looked up at the night sky and raising his arms said, "Look, now I am a free human, before I was animal." I have seen teenagers who were suicidal change into young people able to look after themselves, go to school and resume living when released from detention.

On June 30 there were 1,500 people in community detention - now there are just over 1,100. DIAC will say that 400 have been granted visas and moved on – true, but the empty places have not been filled by others suffering in detention. There are still hundreds of children in detention, not to mention thousands of sick, suicidal adults. People are being admitted to hospital and then sent back to detention even when their doctors state clearly that detention was a major cause of their illness and that a return to detention will cause a relapse.

"It is our feeling that should he be made to return to detention ...he stands a significant risk of rapid and full relapse of his condition. Hence it is our strong recommendation that this man be considered for community detention."

"It is my opinion that returning him to a detention centre would be associated with a high risk of relapse... I therefore recommend that consideration be given to community detention."

Both these men were returned to detention.

There are many vested interests in the detention industry. Many people, including SERCO and DIAC staff, are making the sort of money they will never see in their lives again. Guards on $2,100 per week and DIAC staff earning $100 per day extra on top of their salaries. Many contractors - food suppliers, private airlines, architects, engineers and building companies, global healthcare companies etc - are involved in this trough and these voices are fighting hard against community processing for financial reasons. These voices claim that people will not be supported in the community and that detention is better. A man who had his leg amputated recently was returned to detention using this argument.

This Government has a choice – releasing people into the community for the processing of their claims or keeping the detention industry rich while peoples' spirits shrivel and die. Six suicides and seven deaths in detention since Labor took office is a brutal legacy.

* Information in Question 6 supplied to Joint Parliamentary Inquiry by DIAC

Pamela Curr is the campaign coordinator at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

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