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Let's not forget the SIEV-X : Comments
By Susan Metcalfe, published 17/6/2008'Hope', a documentary by Steve Thomas and Sue Brooks, is Amal Hassan Basry’s story - a survivor of the ill-fated SIEV-X.
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The unresolved issues include –
1. Did our Government have agents working in Indonesia that reported on each refugee boat that was leaving for our shores?
2. Was the SIEV-X deliberately sabotaged before it sailed?
3. Did the SIEV-X actually sink in International waters and not on Indonesian waters as reported in some media?
4. Was one of our surveillance vessels shadowing the SIEV-X, aware of the situation but failed to offer assistance. If so, on whose instruction?
Quite simple questions yet resulted in deliberate obstruction and avoidance during the Senate enquiry, as if there was something to hide.
Remember that this was the Government that claimed it knew “absolutely nothing” about ex-military personnel training to be dock workers in Dubai and failed to tell the truth about the kids overboard after they were made aware of it (“better not see the video then”).
They also vilified and scapegoated one of their own intelligence personnel when he contradicted the American version of the Iraq WMD situation.
If it turns out that politicians allowed 353 people to drown for their own political purposes, then I think we are entitled to know.
I would have thought that they would have been the very first ones to want this issue resolved.
Political opportunism is one thing, but this may be something else entirely and it's time it was concluded - one way or another.