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Article: Roundup: Australia not to yield to asylum seekers on hunger strike
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- January 8, 2004
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Roundup: Australia not to yield to asylum seekers on hunger strike
CANBERRA, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Canberra proved its determination to
be tough on immigration policy when handling the on-going hunger
strike by Australian asylum seekers on the tiny South Pacific Island
of Nauru.
The hunger strike, which entered its fifth week Wednesday, now
involves 33 men refusing food and water in protest against
Australia's tough immigration policy.
They are a part of the 284 asylum seekers, including 93 children,
in an Australian detention camp which was set up on Nauru in 2001 to
discourage asylum seekers.
Many of the hunger strikers have been treated in hospital several
times before rejoining the ...