What was the name of the Australian town where the hotel used by backpackers was burnt down in June 2000
Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire The background was researched by her to be typical of the Isis area fields where they had worked picking crops. ""The response to the artwork was overwhelming with families ecstatic with the result."" Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire The Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire on 23 June 2000 killed 15 backpackers: nine women and six men. The former Palace Hotel in the town of Childers, Queensland, Australia, had been converted into a backpacker hostel; it was popular amongst backpackers who were doing fruit-picking work in the Childers area. Robert Paul Long was arrested for lighting the fire and charged with
What the Fields Remember What the Fields Remember What the Fields Remember is a documentary based on Nellie massacre. It has been produced by Public Service Broad Casting Trust and directed by Subasri Krishnan. On 18 February 1983, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, more than 2000 Muslims were killed in the town of Nellie and its surrounding villages in Assam, India. People’s homes were burnt down and their fields destroyed. Most of those who died were old people, women and children. Till date the Nellie massacre, remains on the margins of India’s public history, and is virtually wiped out from the nation’s collective