Somare said he was watching with sadness as Australia and PNG “play football with the lives of refugees on Manus Island”. “The hypocrisy is astounding.”Somare said when he became prime minister for the third time in 2002 an arrangement was already in place to detain and process Australia’s asylum seekers on Manus Island, and he honoured the agreement. He said the onus was on Australia to ensure the integration of refugees into the small island community of Manus. However he added that if ordered by navy headquarters to respond to any incident, the navy would remove detainees by force. Manus island camp is a landscape of surreal horror | Behrouz Boochani Read moreThe detainees are facing their third night without power and water inside the centre.

Source: The Guardian November 02, 2017 07:18 UTC