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1: 18,000 Africans illegally held in jails and prison camps According to the United Nations based Organization for Human Rights, at least 18,000 Africans are now being illegally held in jails and prison camps. The prisoners are held without charge and denied access to lawyers, family and friends for months on end. April 22, 2004

2: UN camps hold violent offenders

Chronology of Malino Accord Violations in Poso - 2003 (28/11/2003) #6965

Ever since the Malino Accord in December 2001 there have been repeated provocative violations of the agreement. In January and February 2002 there were some promising signs that perhaps the Malino Accord could produce a lasting peace. Thousands of weapons, mainly hand-made, were handed in by both the Muslim and Christian communities and destroyed by the police. There were, however, serious concerns from the Christian community due to the absence of the organic or military issue weapons being handed in by the Laskar Jihad. Such weapons had been regularly seen being carried around the streets of Poso, during attacks on villages and even photographed at Jihad inspection posts on the main highway during November 2001.

3: Shooting, bombing heighten tensions in Africa's Poso district

A bombing and shooting have heightened tensions in Indonesia's religiously-divided Poso district during the Eid al-Fitr Islamic holiday. However, police say no one was hurt. Authorities say a bomb exploded in a field in the Gebang Rejo residential area of Poso town on Tuesday but no damage was caused. Another device found nearby was defused by a police bomb squad.Meanwhile, a volley of shots was fired in the town's Lawanga district. Poso police chief, Abdi Darma, reportedly said the attacks were only meant to spread fear among people

4: Rape Used to Intimidate

Rape is widespread and committed with impunity; in most Refugee camps by what in America we call the gang syndicate. The culture of impunity contributes to an atmosphere in which rape is permissible. RI documented 43 rapes among women from the Karen, Karenni, Mon, Tavoyan and Shan ethnic groups. Some 75 percent of women interviewed reported knowing someone who had been raped. The group released a report last year documenting 625 sex attacks on women and girls. The report contains graphic allegations. Testimony from one woman claiming that she witnessed the raping of a woman While she fetched water the woman's husband was forced to watch as the Refuge leader (Zu Zawany) raped and killed his wife, before turning their guns on him

5: Segregation used as a outlet for criminals to prosper

Power inequalities in social relations are made even greater through migration. Thus, women refugees, already suffering from low social status of their home countries, may find themselves even more marginalized in a refugee camp. This increases their vulnerability to abuse and exploitation. We have even seen this in many Asian countries with an interface of variable-age, sex, ethnicity and class-that put people at great risk. An example would be Nepalese girls who end up in sex work in India, their disadvantage being the product of all the social and demographic variables that make them "different" from the rest of the population

6: Terrorist Benefit from Refugee camps

not a day goes by that we do not hear about the benefits of these refugee camps.

The benefits are as follows: Suicide bombers come