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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: OZschwitz soldiers building concentration camp in Nauru Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:04 am | |
| The tents are heavy and hot, with not a breath of wind in them. During the day anyone staying inside swelters and though dusk brings relief from the heat, it also heralds the arrival of unusually large rats.
Along with a large red rooster, the rats have become the unofficial - unwanted - mascots of the army squad sweating through the humidity and heat to prepare the site for asylum seekers. At night as the soldiers eat and rest, the rats creep through their tents looking for scraps.
When Fairfax visited the Topside site on Nauru - a postage stamp of an island of 9400 people halfway to Hawaii - more than a week ago the only tents erected were those being used by the army.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/soldiers-toil-in-naurus-searing-heat-as-tent-city-rises-20120911-25pj5.html#ixzz268tDtuxY
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