News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
Kevin Rudd has been described as heartless by Sri Lankan asylum seekers holed up on their boat in Indonesia, but the prime minister says he will not bow to emotional blackmail. As two of the asylum seekers were on Friday taken to hospital in critical...
News Source: The Courier-Mail
| about 1 month ago
A spokesman for the group said four of the asylum seekers had now fainted. The asylum seekers were taken to the western Java city of Merak after they were caught, but have since refused to leave their wooden cargo boat. "That is the fourth person...
News Source: Epoch Times
| about 1 month ago
Albany boarded a tiny wooden boat near Ashmore Reef in the early hours of April 16, the vessel exploded, killing five people...Like many of those who seek asylum in Australia, these were desperate people. Dr Kim Huynh, a lecturer in political science...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said he will not be moved by any actions from a group of more than 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers. They are moored in a port in West Java, Indonesia, and are staging a hunger strike to highlight their...
News Source: Kyodo News
| about 1 month ago
A boatload of ethnic Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka intercepted en route to Australia over the weekend have gone on a hunger strike on their vessel, but Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Friday the country would not be pressured into...
News Source: Sify News
| about 1 month ago
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Friday refused to be swayed by hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum-seekers who launched a hunger strike after their wooden boat was stopped in Indonesia . Rudd said the 255 people, who are refusing to leave their...