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The Nauru files: 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: September 5th, 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/10/the-n...
The devastating trauma and abuse inflicted on children held by Australia in offshore detention has been laid bare in the largest cache of leaked documents released from inside its immigration regime. More than 2,000 leaked incident reports from Australias detention camp for asylum seekers on the remote Pacific island of Nauru totalling more than 8,000 pages are published by the Guardian today. The Nauru files set out as never before the assaults, sexual abuse, self-harm attempts, child abuse and living conditions endured by asylum seekers held by the Australian government, painting a picture of routine dysfunction and cruelty. Children are vastly over-represented in the reports. More than half of the 2,116 reports a total of 1,086 incidents, or 51.3% involve children, although children made up only about 18% of those in detention on Nauru during the time covered by the reports, May 2013 to October 2015. The findings come just weeks after the brutal treatment of young people in juvenile detention in the Northern Territory was exposed. Allegations of sexual assault ... are a persistent theme of the files. In one report an asylum seeker described being told she was on a list written by local Nauruan guards naming single women they were waiting for. In [another] report a cultural adviser for Wilson Security, the company that employs guards at the detention camp, allegedly told an asylum seeker who had been sexually assaulted in camp that rape in Australia is very common and people dont get punished.
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