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Hobart rally calls for refugee visa overhaul after terror attack

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The federal election was just days away, and Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government had promised to close the refugee "gaps".

It was just after 9:00pm and the Government was on a high note, holding an event to honour soldiers killed in the Iraq war.

Then-immigration minister Peter Dutton's office received a call from immigration minister Scott Morrison.

"I'm thinking 'there's something going on there, a real shock'," Dutton says.

"My staff were kind of buzzing and just trying to pick it up - 'how's it going? Is there a problem?'"

At about 2am, the telephone rang.

Two asylum seekers, they said, arrived at a small refugee camp near Nauru and were making an indecent gesture.

"It was really quite horrific," says Australian Defence Force Corporal Scott Roussel.

After about an hour of talking and a night in line, Roussel says the crew of a tug boat heard what sounded like a gun shot and decided to break off and pursue the asylum seekers.

They ran into the camp and a fire crew was called out to deal with it.

"The crew member who was with the boat just picked a gun off of the deck and he started firing at them and the crew just ran away and then the boat kept coming," Roussel says.

Two of the asylum seekers died as a result of the gun fire, and another asylum seeker - a 15-year-old who was also shot - was rushed to hospital, but is expected to live.

Roussel says the boat that took the young men to hospital was not one with which he had much respect.

"I know they have the most basic of medical equipment there," he said.

"The thing that really caught my attention that night was the fact that you see these people that look like they're ready to die every single time that they cross our border in a little dinghy and we know from interviews where they come from that they're not even really looking for a way out of their lives."

Topics: immigration, federal-government, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, nauru, australia

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Defiant inzamam saves pakistans blushes

A video released on Monday shows members of the Balochistan Islamic Movement (BIM), the militant group that led the killing of former Prime Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, pleading with pakistans to save women from being killed by the militants.

The video, shot in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial hub for foreign investors, shows masked militants kneeling before a huge monument of late PM Akbar Khan, the country's first PM, and saying: "We are telling you, these women have the right to life, not death."

The video was posted on Twitter and other social networking sites. The militant group has killed more than 100 people since January and has launched suicide attacks across the country in the first half of 2015, the deadliest outbreak since the early years of the separatist struggle in the 1980s.

The video is part of a concerted campaign to save women from the militants, also known as Jaish-e-Muhammad, according to Amnesty International. The group had earlier released a video attacking members of the security forces, accusing them of raping, killing and maiming women.

"There is no doubt that we will prevail against these murderous attackers," the masked militant said in the video. "They will be condemned to death by the people of this country. We are fighting the Islamic State, not the people of Pakistan."

"We will save the lives of those who are alive today and will fight them and then we will continue on to fight the enemy who are spreading terror throughout the region," he added.

He also said that if the women are willing to fight, he will kill them. He asked the people of Karachi for help in finding "the remaining pakistani women of this country".

Earlier in the day, a woman, known as Eknat, was killed by armed militants from the Balochistan Islamic Movement (BIM) while returning from a religious ceremony held at a mosque, a report of the provincial police said. It said that her body was dumped on a road in Lahore city.

The militant group is believed to be based in North Waziristan, where militants from the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are active. They have fought since 2002 for an Islamic state in a region under Pakistani government control.

(AFP)

Date created : 2015-05-22