6,000 refugees caned a year

6,000 refugees caned a year

A baby caged in squalid conditions at Lenggeng Immigration Depot, near Kuala Lumpur.Up to 6,000 refugees a year, including kids, are caned at Malaysian refugee camps, according to Amnesty International.To watch the video go here.The Daily Telegraph Australia reported crowded and unhygienic refugee camps in Malaysia.Some inmates are reported to have died from disease spread by rats.Amnesty International's Dr Graham Thom toured three Malaysian detention centers last year.He photographed women and even a baby caged in squalid conditions at Lenggeng Immigration Depot, near Kuala Lumpur, and hundreds of men in one tennis court-sized enclosure."We went to three different centres and each was equally appalling," he said.Australian Immigration Minister Chris Bowen is finalising an asylum seeker swap deal with Malaysia.

"What he needs to give is an assurance that people won't get caned," Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said in Canberra.
Source: Daily Telegraph AustraliaImages: Amnesty International's Graham ThomPublished May 26 2011