Thread by @palmoillabour

DEPORTEE: “WE’RE TREATED LIKE ANIMALS”
"Indonesian migrant workers were massively deported after cruel and inhuman detention in Sabah, Malaysia (December 2019-June 2020)."

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"We are treated like animals. After the prison sentence was over and while waiting for the deportation process at the immigration depo, we were treated like animals. The ‘red house’ [temporary detention centre] is like hell. -c-

-c- Most of us at the detention experience all kinds of diseases. " (XYZ, deportee from Adonara, East Nusa Tenggara).

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XYZ is one of the deportee survivors interviewed by the fact finding missions team of 'Koalisi Buruh Migran Berdaulat.

XYZ along with other hundreds of deportees were treated inhumane in the Temporary Detention Center in Sabah during the deportation process.

The coalition investigated the condition of Indonesian migrant workers who were massively deported after cruel and inhuman detention in Sabah, Malaysia between December 2019 to June 2020.

The investigation found systematic violations of human rights against the migrants that have occurred for many years. Such violations took place systematically and on an immense scale.

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In Sabah, our key findings are: (1) deportees were treated cruelly and inhumanely at the temporary detention centres; (2) prolonged detention due to inefficient bureaucracy has caused thousands of migrants deprived of their liberty for unacceptable reasons;

(3) temporary detention centre became an institution of torture for years; and (4) this inhumane situation was also experienced by women and children, including pregnant women, resulting in multiple harmful impacts.

“Between February to June 2020, I saw three women giving birth at a block where I was detained. I have seen babies born safely without the help of officers, let alone doctors or nurses. The babies are very small, it must be due to malnutrition." (GWS, women deportee from Flores)

In Indonesia, the key findings of our investigation are 1) lack of coordination among government institutions to respond to the deportation processes and 2) the lack of coordination in anticipating the wave of massive deportation has resulted in the emergence of serious problems.

On the other hands, @AmnestyMy has expressed alarm by the Home Minister’s statement in Parliament revealing that twenty-three detainees, including two children, had died in immigration detention centres from January to June 2020.

malaysiakini.com/news/537683

Research conducted, including that of the National Commission of Human Rights (Suhakam) in 2018 found these detention centres to be cramped, unsanitary, poorly maintained, and lacking in basic facilities such as clean water and food, said @AmnestyMy

Therefore, the Coalition strongly condemn all forms of torture and other cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment at the temporary detention centres in Sabah, which has been occurring for many years.

The Coalition also urge the governments of Sabah, Malaysia and Indonesia to carry out systematic reforms and efforts to stop violence and torture against migrant workers in Sabah.

Read the statement release by Koalisi Buruh Migran Berdaulat and @KomnasHAM

palmoillabour.network/2020/08/deport…

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