April 05, 2005

Exporting Deaths in Custody

Is it any wonder the Australian government turned a blind eye to US turture at Abu Ghraib, given that is has long ignored domestic protests about Aboriginal deaths in custody? After 20 years of relentless campaigning, one distressed widow has had enough:
"I don't want to live in this country. This country, I don't want to have anything to do with because you know how a refugee leaves their motherland and goes and lives elsewhere, I think that we should leave so the world can see how Aboriginal people are really treated by Australia."
Twenty years after he died at police hands in Darwin, the autopsy on her husband's body today found signs of torture.

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