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Two Refugees Set Themselves Alight in Australia’s Nauru Detention Centre
Max Newman, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
4 May 2016 – Hodan Yasi, a young refugee woman from Somalia, is in a critical condition after setting herself alight on Nauru on Monday [2 May], just three days after a 23-year-old Iranian refugee, Omid Masoumali, died of injuries sustained in a similar act last week. These events further underscore the inhuman conditions and denial of basic legal and democratic rights inflicted on the nearly 1,500 refugees held into these facilities, which health professionals have likened to concentration camps.
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