This story originally appeared on Alma. Jaivet Ealom is the only known person to have ever escaped the notoriously brutal Australian-run refugee detention center on Manus Island. As a Rohingyan refugee fleeing Myanmar’s campaign of genocide, Jaivet found himself imprisoned on the remote island near Papua New Guinea for three… Read more »
How a Holocaust survivor’s book helped this Rohingyan refugee survive brutal detention
Jaivet Ealom is now a political science student at the University of Toronto. (Cole Burston)
