December 1975 - Scandal Of The Detention Camps - Suspects

December 1975 - Scandal Of The Detention Camps - Suspects were rounded up like animals. Controversy erupted over conditions in the detention camps. Accounts by detainees told of appalling conditions and brutality, and in 1959, the camps achieved world-wide notoriety after the Hola massacre. Detainees were colour-coded on arrest into white, grey and black streams. The black, being the hard-cores, were sent to the worst and most isolated camps. More than 78, 000 people passed through the camps. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)

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Accounts Achieved Appalling Brutality Coded Controversy Cores Detainees Detention Erupted Isolated Massacre Notoriety Passed Rounded Scandal Streams Suspects Told Worst

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