Bloody Boat People!

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/07/26/323281_ntnews.html
  DARWIN may find itself at the centre of the federal Coalition's latest asylum seeker policy, which will allocate more military involvement to protecting Australia's borders.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott yesterday unveiled the Coalition's latest for trying to dissuade asylum seekers from making the boat journey to Australia.
Mr Abbott said that their plan would establish a "military-led response" and a three-star commander would head the operation, which would be called Sovereign Borders.
"The scale of this problem requires the discipline and focus of a targeted military operation placed under a single operational and ministerial command, and drawing together all the necessary resources and deployments of government agencies," the Coalition policy statement said.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/seeking-asylum-finding-tragedy-how-one-mother-lost-her-son-chasing-a-better-life/story-fni6ulvf-1226686837632
SHE was sold a cruel lie by the people smugglers. She would be travelling on a luxury ocean liner from Indonesia to Australia. They showed her photos of the ship that would transport her, her beautiful son and her brother to their new life in Australia.                                       
It was a superb vessel, with three storeys of cabins.
"I believed them," she says.
She had dreamed of nothing else but being with her husband, who had escaped to Australia four years earlier on a boat to build a new life in Perth for his wife and unborn son, their first child. He had left Sri Lanka when she was five months' pregnant.
She speaks passable English. She says the police won't let her see Darmithan. They took him from her when they arrived here in the ambulance, the day before. "I want my baby, I want to see my baby," she cries.

Selvamalar tells how it came to this. Late last year she, her brother Rahulan, 25, and Darmithan left their home in Vavuniya, in Sri Lanka's Northern Province. She says her husband, Balamanokaran, faced serious ethnic and political problems as a Tamil in Sri Lanka.
He is living in Perth on a five-year visa. Selvamalar said she'd tried to join her husband through legal means, but was refused a visa. "I don't know why," she says.
In mid-November, feeling she had no alternative, she set off from Galle, in the south of the troubled island nation, with her son, brother and 43 other Australia-bound asylum seekers.
Each paid the equivalent of around $7200 for passage to Indonesia. She says the engine stopped as they got close to Indonesia in their 2000km journey.
Wind back a few days. We are in the village of Cidaun, on the southern coast of West Java, at one of the closest points between Indonesia and Christmas Island.
Two Sri Lankan women are weeping as they trade accounts of their grief, but neither is able to offer comfort to the other. One explains that her three children and husband are missing, lost at sea after their smuggling boat sank. The second woman says her only son is missing.
Someone calls the second woman's name. She turns, in horror.
She knows that over where the voice came from is the makeshift morgue they have set up in the clinic in the fishing village of Cidaun, on the southern coast of West Java.
An ambulance has just arrived with another body rescuers have pulled from the water.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

  http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/07/30/323345_ntnews.html
VIETNAMESE asylum seekers have been busted running a sex ring out of a Darwin detention centre.
The discovery has raised fears that organised crime gangs might have infiltrated the boats.
The women trading sex to other detainees in the Darwin detention centre travelled to Australia by boat with men Immigration officials say are more akin to "pimps than partners''.

Officials suspect the women were sent to Australia to work in the sex industry.
Organised crime syndicates have been linked to the spike in Vietnamese asylum seekers to provide cheap labour to run marijuana crops and work in brothels.

The spike has also been linked to the sex industry and poor fisherman simply seeking work.     In many cases they have claimed to have been orphans or minors before biometric checks revealed some applicants had entered Australia previously on tourist visas.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

http://tools.ntnews.com.au/stories/54961192.php
FORTY Indonesians believed to be illegal immigrants seeking to return home are missing, after the boat they were on sank off the coast of Malaysia.
The boat carrying 44 people sank on Thursday night off southern Johor state, said Amran Daud, an official with the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency.
Four men were rescued on Friday.
"The condition of the boat is believed to be questionable,'' Amran said.



40 people missing? time for a new movie? "40 leagues under the sea"

[Rev.Cambeul]

40 people missing? time for a new movie? "40 leagues under the sea"

40 NOGs Under the Sea: With Mr Wong as Captain Nemo. Funded by all your lost American Express Traveller's Cheques.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

"Ali-ba ba and the 40 thieves" in a double feature with "40 leagues under the sea" .. aww well at least I can get my travellers cheques back. I kept the serial numbers written down.
"Can't go WONG wid Ame-wickan ek-pess"