Can this be true?

Officer disciplined for calling asylum seekers by numbers instead of names

Serco confirms that asylum seekers as young as 12 referred to by boat ID numbers at privately operated detention centre

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/30/officer-disciplined-for-calling-asylum-seekers-by-numbe...

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Voltaire: “Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities” .
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Perhaps it is like the direction from morrison to call them detainees instead of clients.  It is designed to dehumanise them in the eyes of the Australian public.

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