theauspolchronicles:

Refugee children locked up in Nauru are Googling how to kill themselves.

One 10 year old child ate pieces of sharp metal from a fence and other 14 year old child doused herself in petrol and tried to set herself on fire.

From the article:

“Am I concerned that children could die in Nauru, that some of these refugee children could die? I’m absolutely concerned about that. I’m reasonably surprised that no-one has,” said Dr Vernon Reynolds, a former child psychiatrist on the island employed by the Australian Government’s contractor, International Health and Medical Services (IHMS).

“They stop eating much, they stop drinking much, they stop looking after their day-to-day self cares… They stop interacting with people, they stop talking, they stop doing anything they might have done for interest and enjoyment and they really just exist in their bed.”

THIS IS SHAMEFUL. THIS IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE. THIS IS WHAT SCOTT MORRISON OVERSAW AND ENSURED WAS KEPT QUIET WHEN HE WAS IMMIGRATION MINISTER AND THEN DUTTON DID THE SAME.

We are failing these children. We as a nation are destroying innocent lives. We’re literally torturing children with despair and hopelessness until they’re so wracked with mental health issues they waste away and attempt suicide.

Fuck the government for this disgraceful lack of humanity. Children have been locked up for 5 years in Manus and Nauru - some for their entire lives and this is a direct result of the cruel and inhumane policy of indefinite detention. These are only the latest in a long list of horror stories of people committing suicide, being beaten, abused, dying from lack of medical care, tearing out their teeth, going on hunger strikes, and more. Tell your local MP and Senators you won’t stand for this. Tell people this is happening. Tell them that this the kind of policy Scott Morrison is fine with and that we as a nation are not. We cannot let another election go past without this being an issue that everyone is aware of so it can stop.

Fuck the government. Fuck this.