24-03-2017 01:08 via theguardian.com

Detained on Nauru: 'This is the most painful part of my story – when you realise no one cares'

In this excerpt from the book They Cannot Take the Sky, Benjamin talks about his years detained on Nauru, and his undying hopes for the futureBenjamin was taken to Nauru in 2013 with his family. He told the first part of this story on Christmas Day 2014. He is still on Nauru. Related: The Nauru files: cache of 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention My sisters always say, 'You lied to us last year. You told us that we were gonna go out of here' Rel
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