Underlying this will, on the part of the government, to proceed rapidly via an interview rather than through written documents, within an eight day timeframe, is this presumption that some people will be lying. The theory is that if we give them too much time, they will be better able to invent a whole story.
When we take a close look at this, is it not rather the opposite that risks happening, in other words that the people who have truly been traumatized will be penalized by the system? Whereas the person who invents a story, within two, eight or thirty-one days, will come out of the process just fine, despite it all.