Saturday 20th of April 2024

living within our means ...

living within our means ...

our pontificating malcolm has never known despair...

 

A young refugee woman, believed to be Somalian, has set herself alight on Nauru, just days after a 23-year-old man, Omid, died of injuries sustained in a similar act.

It comes amid moves by the immigration department to shift detainees out to other mainland facilities, and police efforts to recapture an escapee from a Darwin detention centre.

And Omid’s widow on Monday told Guardian Australia that she is being kept in a Brisbane hotel by immigration authorities, denied access to a lawyer and sedated.

The name of the young woman who self-immolated on Monday is Hadon, sometimes also written as Hodan, and she is under the age of 22, with reports she is as young as 18.

An open letter to the asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru from First Dog on the MoonFirst Dog on the Moon Read more

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/02/second-refugee-sets-themselves-alight-on-nauru

 

Malcolm Turnbull has never known despair. And I mean DESPAIR.  Not being on the verge of losing a bit of cash or having been bitten by a mozzie. Despair is beyond what other people can inflict. Some people saw light and survived the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Here in Nauru, there is not much more pain but that of total annihilation while being still alive. Malcolm has never known despair...