In the Australian camp for migrants, a riot began after a suspicious death of Kurd

Serious riots began in the camp for illegal migrants on the island of Christmas, which is located northwest of the coast of Australia. The cause of the rebellion was the suspicious death of one of the refugees, the Kurdish of Iranian origin.

Australian opposition politicians have already demanded that the government reveal the degree of destruction caused by the continuing riots. It is known that in the camp called Kiwi Alcatraz, several buildings were destroyed and burned, including the dining room, destroyed surveillance systems, and prisoners, which were kept in isolation, were mixed with other illegal migrants, Reuters reports.

Australian Migration Minister Peter Datton told Parliament that the riots began at about 11 pm local time on Sunday, after it became known about the death of a prisoner who escaped the day before. The body of a person who was identified as the Iranian Kurd Fasel Chegeni was found during the search and rescue work at the foot of the rocks in the remote part of the island of Christmas. Datton assured that all those responsible for causing damage to the property of the Commonwealth will be established and punished.

In turn, the representative of the Opposition Party of the Green Sarah Hanson-Yang suggested that the migration authorities were faced with a more serious crisis than described in official messages. She stated that she came into contact with people who were blocked in the camp, and they talked about serious riots and fires.

The camp on the island of Christmas is not the only point of the content of illegal migrants. The Australian government is trying to stop the flow of refugees, which rushes on the continent from unsafe South-Asian and other countries. Two more camps act on the island of Man in Papua-New Guinea and Nauru in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean. Many detainees who were on the island of Christmas were delivered there from neighboring New Zealand after they were convicted of various crimes. Some of them by that time lived in Australia for several decades.

The head of the Australian border service Roman Kvedlelet claims that the events in Kiwi Alcatrase took a dramatic turnover when some opportunists took a message about the death of the Iranian refugee to warm up the riots. He admitted that the scale of damage caused at the moment is unknown, 9news reports.

"The Department of Immigration works with its partners to restore the proper order in the migrant camp. Information about any criminal crimes will be transferred to the police for the investigation. There are currently reports of damage within the center, but its external perimeter remains reliable," he said. Kvedlelet made it clear that the camp security was aware of the escape of Fasel Chegeni.

At the same time, prisoners from the camp on the island of Christmas, who managed to contact journalists, say that the death of the Iranian is very suspicious. Some of the migrants claim that his screams have heard before the guards brought a bag with a body, the ABC report said.

Judging by the reports, a certain number of decisively tuned migrants captured key objects of the camp, burned the dining room, defeated the insulators and the medical center. At least one of the rebels required help in contact with an overdose of drugs. The guards retreated to the external perimeter, fearing for their lives. At the same time, other prisoners turned out to be hostages of the situation and turn to the authorities with a request to ensure their safety. These people barricaded in the residential area. In total, the island contains a little more than 200 people.

The migrant camp was opened on the island of Christmas in 2003 and since then remains the subject of disputes both among Australian politicians and between the governments of Australia and New Zealand. In Wellington, it is believed that Australia is not entitled to deport migrants who have lived in the country most of their lives. Criticism is also caused by the fact that the displaced faces are in the camp for a long time. The migrants themselves say that they are kept in the camp "like animals", notes the New Zland Herald .

The Australian media managed to find out that earlier Fasel Chegeni attempted suicide in the pre -trial detention center before being sent to Christmas Island. “He showed me his documents before expulsion. This man was subjected to cruel torture in Iran,” said Pamela Tek, a refugee lawyer. According to her, the Iranian was in prison for several years, despite a positive decision to grant refugee status.