They report about some minor assaults by detainees on detainees, refugees on refugees.
They report about some minor assaults by detainees on detainees, refugees on refugees," he said on ABC radio on Thursday.
The precise situation on Manus this weekend is unclear, although photos and videos sent to Australian news organisations apparently show some detainees with minor head injuries, others on stretchers and security guards in riot gear.
A third factor the report identifies as fuelling polarisation is the heavy-handed policing of Palestinian areas of east Jerusalem, where additional Israeli forces sent to quell disturbances "have been engaged in recurrent violent confrontations with Palestinian youth that led to more than 1,300 arrests (with 40% of the detainees being minors)".
A total of 32.6% of reported detainees were minors, of which only 2 (1.3%) were male.
Near Camp Justice, the authorities will use the "pink palace," an old air-traffic-control terminal, for the trials of detainees regarded as minor figures.
In the case of a detainee who died in custody, Formica noted that there had been bruising to the "shoulders, chest, hip, and knees" but added, "It is not unusual for detainees to have minor bruising, cuts and scrapes".
Of the detainees, 237 are minors.
Because, by definition, the detainees were accused of minor offenses, it was unclear whether they would ever be arrested again.
The detainees include women and minors, activists say, and they contend that the majority of political prisoners are held in secret detention centers, off limits to Red Cross officials.
