East Timor: History of Atáuro Island

Written byMong Palatino
Posted 12 September 2010 16 years ago

Return to Rai Ketak refers to the proposal to house a detention center in Atáuro Island in East Timor for those seeking asylum in Australia as “insensitive” to the controversial colonial history of the place.

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