Surya McEwen

so you're taken on the ribs then on these little taken on the ribs and then they take us back to where the prison ship is um which takes a little while like the ribs travel quite quite a way to the different boats to to intercept us and take us then once we get to the prison ship it's like you you're gathered in this area and strip searched they're doing all this stuff to try to like humiliate you

um constant like taunting you get some like get some like punches in and and like throw people on the ground you're in stress positions um and then they like write down your you're given a number

Like everyone's like given a number and they don't use your name.

They always use your number.

Like real, they really use like the Holocaust imagery in a very specific way.

And then I got dragged from that place and you're being dragged along the ground like this kind of like wet metal floor.

And then the soldiers that are coming past you, like two people are dragging you.

And soldiers that come past are, like, you know, like, kicking you or someone put out, like, a cigarette on my finger while I was being dragged and, yeah, got kicked in the ribs and, like, punched in the face.

And then you're, like, slowly taken around, you know,

and then put into the yard where the containers are with the rest of the people.

And once you come through the door, everyone's kind of clapping back with your people again.

That's kind of a nice moment getting back together and then figuring out what's happened because you don't have a lot of information.

Once your comms have been cut on the boat, you're not sure how many boats have been taken, where people have been taken.

It became obvious that they had two big prison ships and they were taking boats and then kidnapping people and taking them to one or another of these prison ships.

And so we're trying to get a sense of like which boats, which people ended up on board.

On this prison ship, they didn't even have like the beds.

So we're just kind of crammed into this little space.

It was slightly smaller, the setup this time from the last time.

So the yard was a little bit smaller.

But it's essentially the same thing.