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Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Malaysia forces detainees to eat grass!!

by Nathaniel Tan

How can we call ourselves in any way civilised? MK:

Dr Anis Salwa Kamarudin of the Health Ministry’s public health division said the cases are linked to certain habits of detainees, such as eating grass and walking around barefooted.

Some of these detainees like to eat grass which grows in the camp (compound),” she said in a written response on how the disease spreads and what measures are being taken to prevent the incidence of communicable diseases in immigration detention centres.

In May, two detainees died of leptospirosis at the Juru immigration detention centre, while six more succumbed in August at the KLIA immigration detention depot.

Anis explained that infection occurs either directly through contact with urine or tissues of animal carcasses, or indirectly through the contaminated environment soil, water, drainage and plants.

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Detainees….. LIKE……. to eat grass?

w.t.f. is wrong with this “dr?” How many people walking this earth “like” to eat grass?

MK pictures of life in detention centres:

I’ve been to some of these places, and yes they are that bad.

Yes, we do sometimes have a large number of undocumented migrants, but is this the way to deal with them?

All these human beings – whose lives are no less valuable than yours or mine – want to do is to work and make a decent living, like any soul anywhere.

We can’t think of a better solution than to keep them penned up like animals, doing nothing all day except eat grass to stave off hunger?

Can you imagine the mental torture that aggravates the intolerable physical conditions of being trapped in such a place for months or years?

Like to eat grass indeed. I think that maybe those responsible for this appalling violation of human rights should be put on a diet of shit infested grass for a month to see how they like it.

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