More than 200 drug addicts breakout of rehabilitation centre in Vietnam

More than 200 drug addicts overpowered the security staff and are believed to be on the run after a mass escape from a rehabilitation center in Vietnam. The inmates overpowered the security and forced them to open the main gate to let them out.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 24 October 2016.

There were two inmates who initiated the breakout and as many as 562 (including 58 women), escaped from the centre in Dong Nai province, in the south east region of the country. Police managed to recapture 332, but 230 are still missing from the compound. The centre accommodates 1,481 inmates.
As per estimates, there are 200,000 drug addicts in Vietnam and, many of them heroin users. The Vietnamese government enforces compulsory treatment for these drug addicts. These programs involve education, communist ideology and physical labor for up to two years.
However, the conditions in the rehab centres have been condemned by the US-based Human Rights Watch group. In their opinion, these should be closed because the treatment centres are like "forced labour camps" where inmates do not receive proper health care and are often subjected to physical violence.


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