MHA: SG is a small country with limited land...

[Confuseous]

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has expressed its stance on the Rohingya “boat people” issue that Singapore will not be accepting refugees or people seeking political asylum.

“As a small country with limited land, Singapore is not in a position to accept any persons seeking political asylum or refugee status, regardless of their ethnicity or place of origin,” said an MHA spokesperson, in response to queries from local news channel, Channel NewsAsia.

Reuters reports that while nearly 800 migrants on one boat were brought ashore....
http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/201...s-as-it-is-a-small-country-with-limited-land/

 

[xingguy]

Source: Martyn See

Suddenly, conveniently, we're full house.

"As a small country with limited land, Singapore is not in a position to accept any persons seeking political asylum or refugee status, regardless of their ethnicity or place of origin,”

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/mobi.../1850252.html?cid=fbint#.VVY7G2WVxI8.facebook

Singapore Rejects Myanmar Shipwreck Survivors

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324296604578175101559083548

Not Welcome? Thousands of Rohingya Migrants Stranded At Sea And Surviving On Urine After They Were Refused Entry By Several Countries

http://www.ischoolguide.com/articles/12085/20150515/myanmar-migrants-stranded.htm

Read also:

ICA makes it easier for PRC travellers to visit S’pore

http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/05/ica-makes-it-easier-for-prc-travellers-to-visit-spore/

Why No One Wants The Rohingyas
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/15/407048785/why-no-one-wants-the-rohingyas

Why won’t Buddhists speak up for the Rohingya?
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/15/407048785/why-no-one-wants-the-rohingyas

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[xingguy]

Source: Remember Singapore

A Forgotten Past – Vietnamese Boat People in Singapore
Posted on July 1, 2011

Probably not many Singaporeans remember this history, but there was a Vietnamese refugee camp at 25 Hawkins Road of Sembawang that existed for almost two decades.

In 1975, North Vietnam invaded the south and captured Saigon, reuniting the country under communist rule. It spelt the end of the Vietnam War, but it also meant hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese fled their homeland as refugees, many of them ventured desperately southwards by sea to other Southeast Asian countries.

Being a small nation with limited space, Singapore was the first country to stop the boat people from entering its coastlines, instead providing the refugees with food, water and fuel and turning them away. The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) cooperated with the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) in the Operation Thunderstorm to carry out this task.

Other Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and Malaysia soon followed suit. Sadly, many refugee boats capsized or were attacked by pirates as a result. Thousands died in the open sea.

Between 1975 and 1979, nearly 5000 Vietnamese refugees landed in Singapore through commercial ships, who picked them up in the open seas.

Using the site of a former British army barrack at Sembawang’s Hawkins Road, the Vietnamese Refugee Camp was set up some time in 1978 in order to accommodate these refugees. However, at any point of time, the camp did not house more than 150 refugees as the refugees were quickly sent away to other countries who were willing to accept them.

Hawkins Road Camp was considered one of the better and more humane refugee camps in the region, where horrific stories about the treatment of the Vietnamese refugees in camps of other Southeast Asian countries were not uncommon.

By end of June 1996, the camp was officially closed after the last batch of 99 boat people, living here since 1990, were voluntarily repatriated to a more politically-stable Vietnam. Hawkins Road, which houses the refugee camp, also ceased to exist after that.

Published: 01 July 2011

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[Poomer]

I rather bring let a couple hundred poor boat people than the 170,000 filipinos we currently have in Singapore...

 

[steffychun]

UN should issue condemnation against Singapore and sanctions. Authorise military force to free Singaporeans!!!

Iraqis had the lucky in 2003.Libyans got it in 2011.

 

[JohnTan]

The Rohingyas are the gypsies of ASEAN. They are a huge nuisance everywhere they go and bring few benefits to the society. Ask any EU citizen what they feel about gypsies. Ask any tourist who got pickpocketed or robbed by gypsies.

 

[GoldenDragon]

The Rohingyas are the gypsies of ASEAN. They are a huge nuisance everywhere they go and bring few benefits to the society. Ask any EU citizen what they feel about gypsies. Ask any tourist who got pickpocketed or robbed by gypsies.

Any video to support what you said?

 

[laksaboy]

If those refugees can each get a Southern Pacific University degree, I'm sure they'll be welcomed as productive members of Sinkieland society.

 

[Pek Kim Lui]

despite limited land we have been accepting droves of F Trashes from India....... bloody hypocrites

 

[Pek Kim Lui]

If those refugees can each get a Southern Pacific University degree, I'm sure they'll be welcomed as productive members of Sinkieland society.

Will Shitty Bangla Universal degrees be ok??

 

[Pek Kim Lui]

The Rohingyas are the gypsies of ASEAN. They are a huge nuisance everywhere they go and bring few benefits to the society. Ask any EU citizen what they feel about gypsies. Ask any tourist who got pickpocketed or robbed by gypsies.

In Romania gypsy pussies provide good and cheap fucks.......so ok what

 

[laksaboy]

despite limited land we have been accepting droves of F Trashes from India....... bloody hypocrites

You have to feed and clothe refugees. FTs contribute to the economy through consumption, and their salary can be taxed. For foreign workers there's also the very profitable racket called the foreign worker levy.

 

[steffychun]

Singapore is small enough to let PRCs in for ten years!!!!

 

[virus]

If those refugees can each get a Southern Pacific University degree, I'm sure they'll be welcomed as productive members of Sinkieland society.

if cockroaches and spiders can get a south pacific university degree I'm equally sure the MIW would be welcoming them with open legs and get dog farked and farked by spiders also

 

[xpo2015]

There are already more than 2 millions foreigners in Singapore if you add a few hundred thousands refugees, still got plenty of space to achieve 10 millions population!

We need more constructions workers for the High-speed railway project to KL.