They have also been involved in social media racism. Whoever these people are, they do not belong at Nauru in charge of vulnerable refugees. The private company that employed has since suspended them over their use of social media.
Eight guards from Nauru detention centre have been suspended over a possible breach of their employer’s social media guidelines.
The members of the “emergency response team” at Nauru, who were hired on the basis of their cultural “sensitivity”, have been stood down pending an investigation into their social media use.
Some promoted the Reclaim Australia movement and some posted anti-Islam slurs online.
The Nauru guards also posed with Pauline Hanson, the controversial former federal MP and One Nation founder who has long called for immigration restrictions, after she spoke at the rally in Brisbane on 4 April.
A former employee for Transfield subcontractor Wilson Security told Guardian Australia the guards’ online posts provided a glimpse of the mindset of ex-defence force personnel who “frequently referred to asylum seekers in their care as ‘the enemy’ ”.
This included Facebook posts of material comparing Islam to Nazism, accusing companies from Cadbury to Krispy Kreme of supporting terrorism by having products certified as Halal, and the embrace of the slogan “infidels” through T-shirts and tattoos. more
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