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December 1st, 2012 
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A senior member of the Nauruan government says detainees at the Nauru detention centre tried to stop health workers from helping a man who was attempting suicide.
Matthew Batsua, who co-chairs the committee set up to oversee the centre, has told Saturday AM there is a small group of detainees who are causing trouble and are inciting others to join in.
The desperation of one detainee in the centre led him to try to hang himself inside the site’s laundry on Thursday night.
Mr Batsua says when the centre’s health workers tried to help him, the group of protesters interfered.
“When they were trying offer the help that he obviously required, they were being obstructed by others who were keen to see a negative outcome,” he said.
“To me and to the Nauru government, this is sadly behaviour that concerns us seriously.
“If they have their issues they should pursue those issues individually, but they should not be compromising others as well.”
The Nauru government has begun interviewing asylum seekers to process their refugee claims.
Mr Batsua says some are pressuring others not to co-operate, in the hope that their claims will instead be processed by Australia.
However, he says the island is well-equipped to cope and local authorities have not been surprised by the tactic.
“We went into this with our eyes wide open,” he said.
“We did expect that there’ll be a strong resistance to being processed in Nauru.”
Professor Louise Newman from Monash University, who has headed a government advisory panel on the mental health of asylum seekers for four years, says the people inside the centre are under extreme pressure.
“I’ve heard reports from detainees and from staff that there have been some elements of coercion where some individuals who are very determined to engage in protest and hunger striking have encouraged others to be involved,” she said.
“Sadly, [that’s] very typical in those sorts of very emotionally charged environments where people are at high levels of tension and high levels of distress.
“What we probably have is a minority group who are extremely determined to continue protesting because really they see themselves as having very little other option or ways of influencing the situation they find themselves in.”
Hunger strike
Yesterday an Iranian man was flown to an undisclosed Australian hospital for medical treatment that is not possible in Nauru after a hunger strike lasting 50 days.
Professor Newman says others could follow.
“I understand there’s at least one other person where transport to the mainland for medical treatment is being considered,” she said.
“I’m not sure of the current urgency but I am aware that recommendations have been made that the person should be transferred.”
The Immigration Department and the company contracted to provide medical services on Nauru would not comment on whether a second detainee has been recommended to be evacuated.
According to Mr Batsua, about two dozen others on Nauru are on hunger strikes, but he does not think the Iranian man being flown to Australia will lead others putting themselves in similar states.
“Those kind of things are hard to predict,” he said.
“It may not happen. All I do know is the number of people participating in voluntary starvation decreased since we announced and since we’ve commenced the transferee interviews.”
The Immigration Department says the Iranian man flown to Australia will be returned to Nauru once he is healthy enough to travel.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen declined an interview with Saturday AM.
Topics:
refugees,
federal-government,
nauru,
australia
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Source Article from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-01/nauru-accuses-detainees-of-aiding-suicide-bid/4402620
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