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Bureau of Immigration Ex-Chief spills beans.

Discussion in 'News from The Philippines' started by Bootsonground, Sep 27, 2019.

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    Bootsonground Guest

    Story removed by me..Unable to locate original source.
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Yes it appears the primary source is a forum post in the Phils, there is no match for a paragraph in a published news article.

    You could quote it as gossip that appears on another forum, but it was being questioned even there.
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    Seems that someone that was detained in Bicutan is rightfully looking for some kind of revenge or simply bringing some fresh attention to the human rights abuses that go on in there.


    The country’s version of gulag
    BY RAMON T. TULFO

    APRIL 23, 2019

    IN 1973, The Gulag Archipelago, by the Russian writer and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came out detailing life inside a communist Soviet gulag or prison.

    The book became an instant bestseller as it portrayed the inhuman conditions inside a gulag.

    Here in the Philippines, we have a version of the gulag. And the inmates, ironically, are not criminals or people who have committed crimes against the Filipino people. Most of them are just being held for overstaying in the country and waiting for eventual deportation.


    This is the first of a three-part series of articles about the gulag, the Bureau of Immigration detention center inside the police camp in Bicutan, Taguig.

    The author is Raymond Smith, 62, a British book publisher and webmaster whom I sprung from the immigration jail.


    I will tell you later how I came to know Smith and why I caused his release from the Bicutan immigration jail.

    I was able to convince him to write everything that he observed inside the jail which became his home for five weeks.


    Here is the first of Smith’s three-part series, unabridged and unedited [except for some minor corrections in accordance with The Manila Times style]:

    “I arrived at the BI jail on Jan. 11, 2019 and my first impression of the facility was that it was overcrowded and the conditions were very poor generally. There are around 250-300 inmates at any one time with less than 250 bed spaces, so myself and many others had to sleep on the concrete floor in the main communal area. Someone did lend me an old foam mattress and a pillow, but it was difficult to sleep on the floor for the first few nights. Nevertheless, due to the large number of people, mostly Chinese, sleeping on the floor also — quite a few had very bad coughs and it was very noisy at night. A worse problem was that the building was infested by dozens of large rats during the night hours.

    Continued here..

    https://www.manilatimes.net/2019/04...nalysis/the-countrys-version-of-gulag/543823/

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