Posted on 10/14/2009 11:48:46 PM PDT by myknowledge
MORE than 260 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers were last night threatening to blow up their boat if the Indonesian navy forced them to disembark at the port in Merak after the large cargo boat they were piloting towards Christmas Island broke down.
"We have gas canisters and we have told the navy we will blow up the boat and jump into the ocean if they try to force us off the boat," said a spokesman for the asylum-seekers, who would only give his name as Alex.
Alex said the Sri Lankans had each paid $US15,000 ($16,533) to board the wooden craft in Malaysia 13 days ago, after travelling there by air from Jaffna.
"If the authorities in Sri Lanka know this is me on this boat, they will hunt down my wife and children in Jaffna and kill them," the frightened man said. "I have been waiting for my wife and children to follow me here. As soon as possible, we need to get to Australia."
The Sri Lankan asylum-seekers and six Indonesian crew members were under military guard aboard the cargo ship in western Java after being intercepted trying to sail to Christmas Island.
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Australia is destination Plan A.
Do it for the virgins in “never never” land.
Sri Lanka, blowing stuff up, leaving now, these would probably be Tamils. Oh I’m sure Oz can’t wait to have these people.
No. Australians are getting fed up with all the hordes of boat people. I’d wish John Howard’s tough immigration policy were to be reinstated, but nooooooo, Rudd wouldn’t mind a tsunami of immigrants.
Sounds like a solution to the problem, I always encourage proactive thinking.
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