28 Oct 2009

Sri Lankan asylum seekers refuse to disembark

From Checkpoint, 6:42 pm on 28 October 2009
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After 10 days on an Australian Customs vessel, 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers on board the Oceanic Viking are refusing to leave voluntarily, as the deal between Australia and Indonesia to take the group appears to be unravelling.

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