A top-ranking United Nations official has sharply criticised Australia's offshore processing policies for asylum seekers. The Asia Pacific director for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Indrika Ratwatte spoke to reporters in Canberra after visiting the Nauru detention centre. Indrika Ratwatte is the most senior United Nations official to see Australia's offshore processing facilities for asylum seekers firsthand. His assessment is damning. Mr Ratwatte says some refugees on Nauru are in worse shape than the 700,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar driven into neighbouring Bangladesh. And the United Nations has likened that crackdown by Myanmar's army to ethnic cleansing. Please listen to the full report in Pashto.
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