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| Subject: OZschwitz gulag: Child detention 'cruel', inquiry told Fri Apr 04, 2014 7:53 pm | |
| High school student Bashir Yousufi is grateful for his life in Australia but the Afghan refugee still harbours deep sadness about the trauma he was forced to endure while waiting to be processed.
He had already lost his father to the Taliban and his mother to illness before he arrived on Christmas Island as a 14-year-old unaccompanied minor in 2010.
If you're in Afghanistan [and] the Taliban want to kill, they just shoot you and you will die easily. But in Australia, they will kill you slowly with your mind.
He spent almost a year in cramped accommodation with six other children, not knowing what the future held.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/child-detention-cruel-inquiry-told-20140404-3646h.html#ixzz2xxswFzec |
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