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Nauru: The Forgotten Asylum Seekers

Nauru: The Forgotten Asylum Seekers
7 minutes, 2002
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They're the asylum seekers the world forgot: 1,000 Afghans turned back by Australia when their ship went down. Now they're consigned to bleak barracks on Nauru, a tiny coral island in the Pacific, in "conditions not fit for human beings". Australia insists it's a paradise compared with other places where refugees end up, although it won't allow any journalists to see for themselves. But we managed to evade the media ban.