Detained refugee boys describe suicide attempts

IN a taped interview, one of the two brothers who unsuccessfully sought asylum at the British consulate in Melbourne yesterday described how he tried to commit suicide inside the Woomera detention camp.

On the tape, broadcast on ABC radio, the boy said: “Two times I kill myself by razor, two times I suicide me. They took me to the medical, the psychologist. She said: ‘Why you done this?’”

Lawyer Eric Vadarlis, who acted for the pair, said he had heard the tape and identified the voices as those of Alamdar and Montazar Baktiari, although he was unaware where it was recorded.