Letters from Nauru

[j*oono]

Both major parties have pledged never to allow the authors of these letters to be resettled in Australia.

Letter 14

“This is a will for a lady who was trying to commit suicide”

My darling, I apologise to you deeply that I’m leaving you. My nice husband, I love you, again and again I begged Jesus but I don’t know why the Father has forgotten us as He forgot the Jews in the Second World War.

My kind husband, I’m leaving here to open heaven’s gate. To you and others, please excuse me.

I’ve never understood the meaning of this sentence: “The one in authority is God’s servant to do you good” (Romans 13: 4).

We have always respected the law even when we were near to death, were fleeing.

We are seeking refuge in a country where there is a lot of wisdom, compassion and freedom among its people, but their rulers have stone hearts. They were called but they don’t know Jesus, they are spending people’s money imprisoning and torturing women and kids in detention.

Do you remember living a year in 45-degree heat with a small fan? Sometimes with no water to drink and shower.

Do you think my soul will go to my parents? If you could talk to them, tell them, “Your daughter will come to kiss your feet.”

I’ve been crying a lot which causes me headaches, my darling, my darling, I love you, I love you, I will be waiting for you in a peaceful place. Don’t rush, I am counting the time, but don’t rush!

I’m not worried about my body, you know what to do!

I love you.

Read more letters here

[poddster]

J, I suspect that the anything you know about refugees is what you have been spoon fed and gullible enough to swallow.

As opposed to your 'knowledge', I on the other hand spent 7 years in a refugee camp where the air conditioning was the holes left from the removal of alternate palings to burn in freezing temperatures.

Medicine was non existent and the one meal for the day consisted of boiled cabbage and anything else edible ctat could be foraged.

The gates were not locked nor were there any guards because the attentive was exposure to the elements and starvation.

So I will keep my, and many thousands like my experience, in the forefront of my mind and have a closed mind.

Perhaps you should open your mind and eyes.

[aps1080]

You get paid well working in the camps !

If you lot ever get bored of selling on e bay !

[donnashuggy]

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@poddster wrote:

J, I suspect that the anything you know about refugees is what you have been spoon fed and gullible enough to swallow.

As opposed to your 'knowledge', I on the other hand spent 7 years in a refugee camp where the air conditioning was the holes left from the removal of alternate palings to burn in freezing temperatures.

Medicine was non existent and the one meal for the day consisted of boiled cabbage and anything else edible ctat could be foraged.

The gates were not locked nor were there any guards because the attentive was exposure to the elements and starvation.

So I will keep my, and many thousands like my experience, in the forefront of my mind and have a closed mind.

Perhaps you should open your mind and eyes.

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Where did you come from poddy?

[icyfroth]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

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@poddster wrote:

J, I suspect that the anything you know about refugees is what you have been spoon fed and gullible enough to swallow.

As opposed to your 'knowledge', I on the other hand spent 7 years in a refugee camp where the air conditioning was the holes left from the removal of alternate palings to burn in freezing temperatures.

Medicine was non existent and the one meal for the day consisted of boiled cabbage and anything else edible ctat could be foraged.

The gates were not locked nor were there any guards because the attentive was exposure to the elements and starvation.

So I will keep my, and many thousands like my experience, in the forefront of my mind and have a closed mind.

Perhaps you should open your mind and eyes.

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Where did you come from poddy?

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sounds like the horror of holocaust

[cmcoins2000]

Because you mentioned 40 degree heat - NT - just considering your comfort - and the lack aometimes of electricity.

If you don't want it I can return all the feathers before they are missed.

[poddster]

Does it matter to you Donna?

All that happened a while ago and since then I have integrated 100% to my adopted country and have fought for it and bled for it. What about you?

And the rest of you, what have YOU done for YOUR country?

[icyfroth]

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@poddster wrote:

Does it matter to you Donna?

All that happened a while ago and since then I have integrated 100% to my adopted country and have fought for it and bled for it. What about you?

And the rest of you, what have YOU done for YOUR country?

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bugger all could'nt give a rat's too busy worrying about being PC

[flashie*]

I am sorry you had that experience in the camps Poddy.

I am sorry anyone has to experience it.

I don't have the answers...............I just think it is all so sad.

I have been lucky enough in my life that I have never felt the desperation that those people who wrote those letters have felt.

[donnashuggy]

What about you?

I was born here. Where were you born?

[aps1080]

Served for 9 years in the part time in the military, although the amount of time I did it was almost full time.