![]() “Australia’s policy of detaining asylum seekers in offshore facilities, for months, even years, has attracted strong criticism from bodies such as the United Nations. After violence unleashed in 2012 by Buddhist extremists drove tens of thousands of Rohingya out of their homes, many risked their lives to escape in smugglers’ boats more than 100,000 others are living in squalid internment camps.” A recent release of more than 2,000 complaints detailed allegations of horrifying conditions and abuse (including sexual abuse of children) in a refugee camp in the island nation of Naura, site of a refugee camp run by Australia. As The New York Times reports, “Myanmar has long persecuted the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, denying it basic rights to citizenship, to marry, to worship and to an education. ![]() This affecting story about an Australian-run camp for refugees from Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority, although a novel, could have come right out of the news. ![]()
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