Australian officials have quietly briefed families of victims of a 1999 massacre about Australia’s decision to secretly allow two Rwandan men formerly accused in the rampage to resettle in Australia as refugees.
“They don’t normally do that, they said. They said, because of privacy reasons, they don’t do that,” Strathern said. “There were certain things they could not tell us.” The transfer came nearly two years after then-Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told President Donald Trump that Australia had agreed to take in people the Obama administration was “very keen on getting out of the United States,” according to a transcript leaked to the Washington Post. Trump balked at keeping Obama’s pledge to take in the migrants.
Both families said Australian officials offered up a previously unheard explanation for taking in the former Rwandan fighters: a heightened obligation on Australia’s part to address refugee cases involving Rwanda because that nation, like Australia, is part of the Commonwealth. Australian officials did not respond directly to questions about their discussions with New Zealand on the resettlement, nor about how Rwanda’s commonwealth status impacted the decision to admit the two men.
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