Content note: This piece includes graphic discussion of suicide and reference to abuse
Just as I said I wouldn’t, I forgot them, and their stories got tangled up with all the other distant horrors.
In May, last year, two young refugees under Australian care set themselves on fire. Omid Masoumali, an 23 year old held in indefinite detention on Nauru, doused his body in petrol and burnt himself alive. Three days later Hodan Yasin, a 21 year old Somali woman, also set herself alight. Unlike Masoumali, she survived; with burns covering seventy per cent of her body. She lost several fingers in the blaze.
