Treatment of 8 year old Cruel and Inhumane

Treatment of 8 year old Cruel and Inhumane

Call to Women Parliamentarians to Rise Up Against
Detention of this Child and All Other Children

Marion Le, well-known Human Rights Advocate, teacher for over 30 years,
mother and Migration Agent said today that she had called Senator Kate
Lundy's offices in Canberra and at Parliament House to protest at her
statement live on Foxtel news this afternoon that the psychological
well-being of the little eight year old boy was being addressed and that the Senator was certain that he was being well cared for.

Mrs Le said she told Senator Lundy's offices that she was sickened by
those statements as they were clearly not true. Mrs Le also rang
Minister Chris Bowen's office to protest the treatment of the little boy who has apparently been returned back to Christmas Island to detention alone rather than being released into the community into the care of his relatives in Sydney.

Mrs Le said that there was capacity for the boy to have an orphan
relative visa lodged for him by a family member in Australia and she did
not know why this had not been done and actioned as a priority.

On the day when multiculturalism is being held out once again (and
rightly) as a corner-stone of our society it is shameful that the
Australian family of his boy are suffering so intolerably from the cruel
and inhumane policies we have witnessed in the last two days towards
this little boy and the other mourners who were flown to Sydney, Mrs Le
said.

I cannot believe that if that was my little nephew suffering in such a
way that he would still be held on Christmas Island, she said.

I am appalled that Senator Lundy and all the other women in Parliament
have not taken a strong stand in protest against the inhumanity of the
government in continuing to detain children and in particular detaining
this child who will suffer the anguish of his tragic loss and inhumane
treatment for the rest of his life.

I call on Senator Lundy to take the lead and to tell her male colleagues and the Minister himself that she cannot tolerate this cruelty any more. I am certain that if all women put their child in the place of thatlittle boy they will be moved to action and to protest, Mrs Le said.

ENDS

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