article_snippet.sent: Australia Vietnamese community leaders warned that the Abbott government would be ‘throwing people back to hell’ by returning the asylum seekers.
article_snippet.sent: There were reports last year that an asylum seeker from an ethnic minority hill tribe was badly beaten by Vietnamese government officials after being returned by Cambodia.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The return of Vietnamese asylum seekers to the very country and government that Vietnamese asylum seekers have escaped from exposes the truth about the government’s policies: that Vietnamese asylum seekers do not save people, but repel people who may need our help.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Immigration minister Peter Dutton refused to comment on the return of the Vietnamese but insisted people were not sent back to countries where people would face persecution.
article_snippet.sent: However, in a video to be shown to asylum seekers on Nauru, Immigration minister Peter Dutton can be seen urging people to take up the Australian offer for people to resettle in Cambodia.
article_snippet.sent: Immigration minister Peter Dutton tells the asylum seekers: