Staff: Shut detention camps, Australia

Staff: Shut detention camps, Australia |

The announcement came less than a day after more than 100 current and former members of the detention camp personnel off coast of Australia called for all refugees to be moved immediately, say children's lives are "destroyed".

"both Papua New Guinea and Australia are in agreement that the center should be closed," Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said on Facebook.

the detention center was hosting asylum seekers since 2012. refugees arriving in Australia by boat were transferred to offshore centers in small Pacific nations such as Nauru and Papua New Guinea to make it clear that they would not be installed in Australia.

So So far, only the center of Manus Island is scheduled to close. The Nauru center remains open.

Speaking from inside the detention center on Manus, Lebanon held Ahmed Trad told CNN he hoped the closure would be good for him and his fellow prisoners on the island.

"I have nothing to lose ... we really suffer enough," said Trad. "These two years, they were very terrible to me."

There are no regulations in Australia

In a statement detailing the stories of abuse and neglect on Manus island and Nauru, 103 staff of the detention camp said the government should provide refugees and asylum seekers back to Australia.

But the Australian Minister for Immigration Peter Dutton refugees still in establishing Manus Island would never settled in Australia.

"It has been the longstanding position of this government to work with PNG Manus to close and support people in their transition to PNG or return to their country of origin, "he said in a statement.

Reacting to comments of Dutton, Trad described as stultifying.

" no future here, no life, no work, no society, no security, no nothing, "he told CNN.

"the world needs to take the lead Australia"

Doctors, teachers, social workers and managers are among the employees who signed a letter to the Australian government in response to the call of the opposition Labour party for an investigation into the detention camps.

"It is essential. It's beyond that now, "said Eliza Seaborn, a former child and youth recreation principal agent to Nauru with Save the Children Australia.

"We do not need another inquiry that will extend any solution. We need them to be immediately brought to Australia, and the world needs to take the lead Australia."

In a series of tweets Tuesday Nauru government official Twitter account called the abuse reports made.

The children dream more, ex-officer said youth

Katie Price, a former child and youth recreation officer on Nauru, said that children finished devoid of emotion.

"I looked at the lives of these children from being destroyed by these camps," she said.

Dutton, Minister Australian immigration, said he understood that people wanted all refugees released from detention.

"the fact is I have to make decisions to remove people as quickly as possible, as we have done with all children in detention, but it must be done in a way that we do not see the boats and the sea in death again, "he said.

last week, the Guardian newspaper published thousands of documents leaked Australian government, detailing reports of sexual assault, child abuse and self-harm attempts to Nauru detention center.

in response to documents, Amnesty International has accused Australia of "mass cover-up."

Seaborn told CNN the allegations in the report are only the tip of what was happening in the detention centers of Australia.

"the government accuses us of making a large number of these incidents. I went there, I saw, and indeed what happened, "she said.

Seaborn said when she" d first went to Nauru in 2013, she had met, normal friendly children who had dreams of a career or a new life in Australia.

"When we left, you would not hear the dreams or hopes. They were very withdrawn; they were verbally assaulted by security guards on a daily basis, "she said.

Whenever she or her colleagues would report abuse or sexual harassment, Seaborn said she saw little monitoring or significant changes in the camp operations.

"I saw a child under 10 years just fall on the floor and screaming and squirming and scratching his face until he is bleeding," she said. " behavior like that is a level of anxiety that is very hard to describe. "

Australia defends as humanitarian

policy

despite reports of abuse in the camps off the country, Australian leaders have defended the policy as a humanitarian way to prevent people drowning at sea.

Can Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he would stop refugees arriving by boat whether it was "by hook or by crook."

Between 2007 and 2013, the Australian government says at least 1,200 people have died trying to make the trip on the water.

In February, the Australian High Court upheld the government's right to maintain asylum seekers.

Holly Yan

CNN contributed to this report.