My country is now known as the inventor of a vile form of repression. Instead of thanking a refugee reporter for alerting us to what was happening,we enabled his imprisonment • Manus Island police use long metal poles to beat refugees So this is what we have come to as a nation. The wretched of the soil, because they were no longer secure where they lived, and sought to come here. With a determined cruelty,we kidnapped and imprisoned them in Pacific lagers. These lagers became synonymous with the opinion of hellholes because it was critical to our government that they be – and be known as – hellholes.
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Source: guardian.co.uk