As the Australian and Nauruan governments bicker amongst themselves over who is responsible for the detention centres in Nauru, and why such a veil of secrecy lies over the place, CNN have managed to remotely interview seven current and former refugee children living behind the bars.
“It’s not a crime to want to have a better life and future,” one 18-year-old said. “We are treated as prisoners.”
By simply reporting on the facts as they’ve encountered them, CNN has shined a light on our widely-criticised offshore detention policy, and it ain’t pretty.
Here’s a fact: children in detention are reporting the above.
Here’s another: Immigration Minister Peter Dutton declined CNN’s requests for interviews (he is notorious in his shunning of media, and for good reason; he invariably puts his foot in it).
His office did, however, give a statement:
Yup. That’s all our Immigration Minister had to say on the matter.
This is how the Australian government justifies keeping children in a remote island detention camp: http://cnn.it/1PGdJZx #Nauru
Posted by CNN International on Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Source / Photo: CNN.
