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| Subject: OZschwitz statists sent asylum seekers home to their deaths Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:54 pm | |
| TOUR Gul travelled halfway around the world to escape Afghanistan. An enemy of the Taliban, he was convinced he was a target. But in 2002, Australia rejected his plea for asylum and sent him home to his death.
"He was worried. He knew the Taliban would kill him but the government refused him," said his friend, Salem Haideri.
Mr Gul's death late last year made front-page news in Afghanistan. "A famous leader has been killed innocently, in cold blood by the the anti-Islamic forces," said the Governor of Maidan Wardak province, Mohammed Halim Fedaie. The killing of Mr Gul and another asylum seeker, Mohammed Hussain, have prompted renewed calls for Afghans denied refugee status under the former government to have their cases reopened.
The Age last week revealed four rejected asylum seekers from Afghanistan who travelled on the Tampa have now been found to be genuine refugees, after they risked a second boat trip with people smugglers.
One of the men, Asmatullah Mohammadi, said 11 asylum seekers on Nauru had been killed by the Taliban after they were sent back to Afghanistan.
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