From Nothing to Zero: Letters from Refugees in Australia's Detention CentresEdited by Janet Austin; introduction by Julian BurnsideLonely Planet, 2003193 pages, $22 (pb)"What a big joke with human rights. This regime is killing us
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In late 2001, hundreds of B-52 fighter planes roared through the skies above Afghanistan. While these US-led coalition forces bombed the Taliban and hunted Osama bin Laden, around 2000 Afghan asylum seekers in Australia waited for
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"We get this guy out of bed early in the morning...he clings on to the bedstead. My job is to unwind his fingers. Struggling, Shouting. He won't go." These words, spoken by an officer employed at Sydney's Villawood detention centre