WHEN Mark Isaacs set foot on Nauru to provide humanitarian aid for asylum seekers two years ago, he had no idea how much it would change his life. Hired off the strength of a single interview, the then 24-year-old joined other untrained Salvation Army contractors and spent eight months attempting to distract the men imprisoned in the poorly organised detention camps from despair. In that time, one man was murdered at the camp, another had been dying due to medical negligence and there had been numerous suicide attempts due to mental illnesses brought about from camp life.sunshinecoastdaily.au/news/detention-witness-speaks-of-torment-on-nauru/2378712/
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:59:00 +0000
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