Keywords: Michael Lapsley
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 30 August 2012
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Anglican priest Michael Lapsley lost his hands to a letter bomb during his resistance to apartheid in South Africa. His story raises questions of how white South Africans responded to what was being done in their name. Many people working with asylum seekers in Australia today ask a similar question.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michele Gierck
- 02 April 2008
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On 28 April 1990, a letter bomb mailed to Michael Lapsley's Harare home destroyed both of his hands and one of his eyes. His life, and 'Healing of Memories' program, proves that it is possible to overcome the trauma of political persecution.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Michele M. Gierck
- 01 July 2006
Michael Lapsley and the Institute for Healing of Memories
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