Twenty Sri Lankan asylum seekers have been flown back to their home country after their boat was intercepted en route to Australia, it has been reported.
The vessel, which was carrying at least one baby, was spotted last week in the Indian Ocean heading for the northwest coast, The Australian reports. The asylum seekers were detained for a few days on Christmas Island before being flown to Colombo on a government charter jet on Wednesday after their asylum claims were rejected.
Sri Lankans stand at the deserted Galle face promenade jetty facing Indian ocean after the April blasts.The boat had left Sri Lanka in the first week of May, not long after the deadly Easter bombing attacks on hotels and churches. So far 186 asylum seekers have been sent back to Sri Lanka since the coalition won government in 2013, according to The Australian.
Heh I thought the boats had been stopped ;)
Seems they thought Labor would win too.
Kudos to the men and women of Australia’s Border Force saving lives at sea!
It's funny how foreign white European-Anglo-Christian Captain Cook & the subsequent British illegal immigrant terrorists with guns weren't labelled boat people who refused to be turned back by the blood & the soil of Australia defending their lands!
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