Kamunting
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Kamunting is the biggest satellite town in Taiping Larut& Matang district, Perak, Malaysia. It is also the biggest industrial town in Taiping and is famous mainly for being home to the Kamunting prison for detainees under the Internal Security Act, many of whom are held without trial for an indefinite period. The prison has been nicknamed "Malaysia's Gitmo" (referring to the Guantanamo or Gitmo prison for similar detainees in Cuba run by the United States), and holds about a hundred detainees as of 2006.[1]
Kamunting houses the main bus station for Taiping town. It has a weekly night market every Saturday night near the bus station that sells all sorts of local fresh produce and food stuffs. There are also fruit sellers along the road leading to the Kamunting bus stops which sells seasonal fruits like durian and mangosteens. It also connects Taiping to the North-South Expressway via the northern exit.
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