Detention Center in Malaysia

Detention center is a place for foreigners to stay temporarily before going back their own country. From here foreigners are deported by the host countries. Malaysian detention centre is a new experience in my life. After four months imprisonment I was brought to Leng geng immigration camp. Illegal foreigners are pushed in prison after magistrate court’s decision. In Malaysia detention centre is another and most terrible place for foreigners. In this centre they are punished inhumane way.

Leng geng immigration camp is as like as poultry firm. There are four blocks for man inside the arcade. Maximum one hundred people capacities one block is used to live four to six hundred detainees. Inside block there are lots of problems. It is seemed that Malaysia has created a new hell for foreigners rather than detention centre.

No uniform, cloths, bed or blanket are provided. So, foreigners feel very cold at night. Due to over crowded environment people are attacked by various diseases like cold, migraine, fever, stomach pain, gastric etc. Immigration authorities do not provide any medicine for sick. I saw a detainee was crying in front of immigration guard room for hours to go to doctor. After several hours he was not send to doctor and simply they gave some paracetamol tablet. So, foreigners are in great danger inside the camp.

Poor and less foods are provided in the detention centre. Simple one plate coarse rice and a rotten dry fish are provided regularly. No vegetables, soup or curry are given to detainee. So, most of the detainee are facing evacuating problem. Mal nutrition is a major concern among the detainee too. Drinking water is another crisis in the camp. Immigration authority does not provide pure drinking water for detainee.

Everybody comes with good health from prison but after arrival in the camp everybody becomes narrower weaker and sick. All detainees are facing malnutrition problem badly. I was also facing health problem after coming back from lenggeng camp. All of my relatives are saying I became weaker and my health is badly damaged at Lenggeng immigration camp in Malaysia.

Dear online viewers you may hear that Malaysia is a Muslim majority country but this is wrong. Just in name it is Muslim country but nobody sees any Muslim or Islamic activities in the camp. More than fifteen hundred detainees are staying always in the camp but there is no praying place or mosque0 for detainee inside the block or camp.

The most important point is communication with family. There are only two war tel boxes inside the camp. Detainees have to wait into long line to make a call from the booth. Indiscipline systems are seen in calling system. Somebody are talking for hours and somebody cannot make a call for a while. Immigration police do not care properly to use telephone inside the camp. New detainees have to wait two weeks to buy a telephone card from immigration store.

Malaysian immigration should make easy to make a call with detainee’s family. They can add new and more telephone booths they can provide telephone card among the detainee in faster way.

Most shameful scene is that some immigration officers are doing business by providing mobile phone inside the block. Immigration officer are collecting RM20 just for making a miss call. If detainee’s family or friend do not make top up RM 20 for a miss calls, then, they beat the detainee.

Immigration officers have made the camp into trading point in Different ways. They are supplying heroine, gazaa, ice, afim and another illegal drug. They are selling different foods including maggy noodles for high price. To complete their business activities inside the camp they have employed Myanmar’s national as their agent.

Due to police assistance Myanmar people are dominating on other nationals inside the camp. Almost everyday Myanmar detainee are beating and torturing other country’s nationals. In all block Myanmar detainee is employed as a block captain by police. The captain make a group (10-20 people) to beat other country’s national.

I saw a negro (Nigerian national) was beaten by Myanmar’s criminal group just for shouting or uttering legal protest against Myanmar people’s attitude. Not only that Myanmar’s all people very stupid and rude in side the camp. They captured half of all block’s toilet area.

They do not let to use all toilets for detainee. Some toilets are reserve for Myanmar criminal. They are doing drug and phone business from the toilet. They have established Christian culture inside the toilet. Other Muslim country’s national like Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistani are facing problem to use toilet or bathroom. Myanmar people are shameless they do not hesitate to be naked in front of others during bath.

Dear online viewers I had no idea about Myanmar people but after arrival in the camp I got bitter experiences about Myanmar people. I saw more than fifteen country’s people in the camp. Among them most stupid and rude people are from Myanmar. They do not know how to respect others. Probably that’s why Myanmar military government has been ousting them from Myanmar.

We had good idea about Malaysia but after arrival in prison and immigration camp it has been cleared that Malaysia’s people are also very bad specially immigration officers. They are very rude, impolite and stupid. Some detainees complained that they beat, kick and snatched their belonging during their entrance period. They bound detainee to be naked before entrance into the camp.

Malaysia is a multi racial country. In 1959 during riot in different groups many people have died. Remembering this incident Malaysian Government should be alerted. They should be corrected. They should realize that their economy is dependent on foreign workers. Their behavior should be developed. They should learn from other Muslim countries how to behave with foreign nationals. They should show proper respect detainee inside the detention center.

Dear online visitor you may be astonish to hear about Malaysian immigration’s bribery scandal. Foreigners are in helpless condition in detention centre. Most of the foreign workers have come from neighboring countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan Vietnam and some from African countries. Communication and money is the major problem among the detainees to go back their native country.

Immigration officers are making bound detainee to pay double ticket fair to go back their own country. Especially Bangladeshi workers are most affected victims among others. By Air Asia a Bangladeshi detainee easily can comeback for RM400 only but some immigration officers are taking 850-1000 Ringgit from the Bangladeshi detainee. It is in humanitarian and cruel attitude of Malaysian Immigration towards foreign detainee.

Comparing with other nationals Bangladeshi are in second position in quantity. Always 400-500 detainee has been staying in Leng geng camp. They are helpless and most of their relative has no proper information about the person. That’s why they have been staying in camp months after months. They are becoming sick and weaker.