"Three word slogans"

Indrika Ratwatte

"Despite decades working in humanitarian crises around the world, the suffering I witnessed on Nauru is an immense shock"

 ... Worse than this, a policy that knowingly and unrelentingly harms children for political ends is an abomination. There can be no three word slogans to justify it. There are no excuses.

(Indrika Ratwatte is the UNHCR director of the regional bureau for Asia and the Pacific, Geneva, she is writing in the Guardian )