MOTR wrote on Sep 29
th, 2013 at 6:16pm:
Maqqa wrote on Sep 29
th, 2013 at 11:07am:
Let me get this right
(1) The boat was sinking 50 meters
(2) The survivors are blaming Australia
Why are they too scared to blame Indonesia?????
No, Maqqq. Once again you are misrepresenting the truth. It ran into trouble 25 Nautical miles out. Survivors have claimed they contacted Australian authorities well before it sank.
Quote:IMMIGRATION Minister Scott Morrison has finally responded to questions over an asylum seeker boat which sank off the coast of Indonesia.
Mr Morrison said Australian authorities were initially in charge of the search for the asylum seeker vessel after receiving a phone call about the incident yesterday morning.
Initial reports placed the vessel 25 nautical miles off the Indonesian coast, inside the Indonesian search and rescue region, but a Border Protection Command aircraft and a merchant vessel responding to an all ships broadcast were unable to find it.
The search and rescue operation is now being handled by Indonesian authorities, Mr Morrison said.
Actually I understand both are correct, it reported difficulties and turned back but ran out of petrol for its pump and foundered close to shore.
None the less, it was at all times much closer to Indonesia than Oz, but of course they wanted to be picked up by Oz crafts to get to da sugar on da table.
But still ya gotta admire the selective outrage of the luvvies, not a frigging peep over the last six years despite at best estimates about 1500 drowned.
Pathetic, you need to take a good hard look at yourselves and your moral flexibility and selective blindness.