Rasa marah timbul di hati ni bila membaca satu artikel di blog RPK. Soalnya, mengapa anggota RELA yang ditugaskan di Pusat Tahanan Imigresen Lenggeng bertindak kasar terhadap kira-kira 60 - 70 orang tahanan Imigresen yang disyaki memasuki negara secara salah. Bukankah mereka telah ditahan oleh pihak berkuasa atas kesalahan melanggar Akta Imigresen dan sedang menanti prosedur untuk dihantar pulang. Apa hak RELA untuk memukul mereka? Bayangkan kalau ahli keluarga kita sendiri diperlakukan begitu di negara asing. Tentu kita marah.
WIKILEAKS: IMMIGRATION DETAINEES RIOT AFTER RELA BEATS PRISONERS
Summary
1. (C) Some 60 to 70 detained suspected illegal immigrants rioted at Lenggeng Immigration Detention Center (IDC) on April 21, setting fire to the temporary administration building according to press and firsthand accounts. Malaysia's Head of Immigration Enforcement claimed the riot started after the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) refused the refugees' applications for resettlement, an allegation denied by UNHCR.
Based on multiple witnesses' accounts, the riot's catalyst was the severe beatings of detainees by Immigration Officers and People's Volunteer Corps (RELA) members assigned as guards to Lenggeng. The Malaysian Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) told us deplorable conditions, overcrowding and alleged abuses by RELA all contributed to the riot. We continue to express concern to the GOM regarding RELA's increased authority over immigration enforcement. End Summary.
RELA Guards Overcrowded Facilities
2. (SBU) Lenggeng IDC is one of 17 IDCs in Malaysia. Formerly operated by the Prisons Department, the IDCs are now responsibility of the Immigration Department, which lacks sufficient personnel and therefore uses RELA, a government-sponsored public security auxiliary force, to guard the facilities (ref A and B). Besides providing security, RELA members also arrest suspected illegal immigrants for a bounty.
The Lenggeng facility is severely overcrowded. Siva Subramaniam, a commissioner for SUHAKAM, informed poloffs the camp currently holds 1,090 prisoners, including seven children and about 280 women. Building tensions between the detainees and their guards came to a head on April 21 when some 60 - 70 detainees rioted and set fire to a temporary administration building.
Witnesses Tell Their Stories
3. (SBU) Poloffs met with two Burmese refugees formerly detained at Lenggeng on May 6. They related that on or about March 31, Immigration and RELA guards accused a group of Burmese and Indonesians of smoking in camp and allegedly punished the group with a beating.
On April 20, after more cigarettes were found, Immigration officers beat an Indonesian and a Pakistani detainee. One refugee described how the officers struck the men on the soles of their feet and along their shins, and administered electric shocks. The Pakistani detainee reportedly cried out for help during his beating and, unable to walk, tried to crawl away until another detainee was ordered to drag the injured man back to the detention block.
Other detainees became agitated and demanded to speak with the senior Immigration Officer.
(Note: A local NGO informed poloffs that officials took the man to Seremban Hospital for treatment. End note.)
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WIKILEAKS: IMMIGRATION DETAINEES RIOT AFTER RELA BEATS PRISONERS
Summary
1. (C) Some 60 to 70 detained suspected illegal immigrants rioted at Lenggeng Immigration Detention Center (IDC) on April 21, setting fire to the temporary administration building according to press and firsthand accounts. Malaysia's Head of Immigration Enforcement claimed the riot started after the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) refused the refugees' applications for resettlement, an allegation denied by UNHCR.
Based on multiple witnesses' accounts, the riot's catalyst was the severe beatings of detainees by Immigration Officers and People's Volunteer Corps (RELA) members assigned as guards to Lenggeng. The Malaysian Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) told us deplorable conditions, overcrowding and alleged abuses by RELA all contributed to the riot. We continue to express concern to the GOM regarding RELA's increased authority over immigration enforcement. End Summary.
RELA Guards Overcrowded Facilities
2. (SBU) Lenggeng IDC is one of 17 IDCs in Malaysia. Formerly operated by the Prisons Department, the IDCs are now responsibility of the Immigration Department, which lacks sufficient personnel and therefore uses RELA, a government-sponsored public security auxiliary force, to guard the facilities (ref A and B). Besides providing security, RELA members also arrest suspected illegal immigrants for a bounty.
The Lenggeng facility is severely overcrowded. Siva Subramaniam, a commissioner for SUHAKAM, informed poloffs the camp currently holds 1,090 prisoners, including seven children and about 280 women. Building tensions between the detainees and their guards came to a head on April 21 when some 60 - 70 detainees rioted and set fire to a temporary administration building.
Witnesses Tell Their Stories
3. (SBU) Poloffs met with two Burmese refugees formerly detained at Lenggeng on May 6. They related that on or about March 31, Immigration and RELA guards accused a group of Burmese and Indonesians of smoking in camp and allegedly punished the group with a beating.
On April 20, after more cigarettes were found, Immigration officers beat an Indonesian and a Pakistani detainee. One refugee described how the officers struck the men on the soles of their feet and along their shins, and administered electric shocks. The Pakistani detainee reportedly cried out for help during his beating and, unable to walk, tried to crawl away until another detainee was ordered to drag the injured man back to the detention block.
Other detainees became agitated and demanded to speak with the senior Immigration Officer.
(Note: A local NGO informed poloffs that officials took the man to Seremban Hospital for treatment. End note.)
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