It has been alleged that two of the asylum seekers had burt hands when the Navy picked them up. It has yet to be determined how the other 4 sustained their injuries.
The whole event appears to be a fabrication.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...s-already-burned/story-fn59niix-1226808080730
Last week on their weekly update General Angus Campbell was asked by the media about claims asylum seekers in custody has sewn their lips together and others were on hunger strikes. His reply was something along the lines it would not be helpful to comment as this puts the matter in the media spotlight thus encouraging others to try similar things. Makes sense to me , and here we have day 4 of the ABC beating up stories of burnt hands .
Just maybe the ADF stratgey has worked sooner than expected.
The Indonesians have been drawn out to protect their borders and in doing so may may see first hand how the Australian borders are being violated by Indonesian fishing boats, flying an Indonesian flag with their human cargo.
The Indonesian Navy, then won't be able to deny from their own observations that the Australian border is being intruded by illegal foreigners.
A number of Indonesian Navy warships have been deployed and four Air Force defense radars have been programmed to closely monitor the southern border, military officials told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
“We are watching four radars in Timika, Merauke [in Papua], Saumlaki [Maluku] and Buraen [East Nusa Tenggara], which all face Australia,” Air Force chief spokesman Air Commodore Hadi Tjahjanto said.
“If we notice any border violations, our air base in Makassar will be ready. Australia is reachable from there.” Hadi was referring to the Sultan Hasanuddin Air Force Base in the South Sulawesi provincial capital, which is the base of the 11th squadron, consisting of 16 Russian-made Sukhoi Su-27/30 Flankers.
The public nonsense coming from Indonesia is now bordering on the hysterical.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/01/23/tension-with-oz-escalates-ri-deploys-warships.html
Interestingly, there's been no media reports of fresh turn backs for several days that I've seen. Tomorrow OSB operational update will be interesting in that context.
My bolds.
http://pickeringpost.com/story/say-goodbye-to-sby/2593
SAY GOODBYE TO SBY (two weeks old article by Pickering Post)
Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is playing a clever game of illegal boat chess while Bill Shorten is the boy looking on without a clue how each man moves. This is how the game is panning out and the Indonesian Government doesn’t even know, or care, that a chess game is going on.
There is always an element of respect between militaries, in third world nations they are often the only constant, and Abbott engaged our military to operate on a diplomatic level for good reasons.
The Abbott Government has allowed itself to remain at arms length from covert military negotiations, at least publicly, and the Indonesian Government can safely be frozen out of the decision-making process... and here’s why:
On April 9, Indonesia holds its general election and SBY’s Democrats, many of whom are in jail over graft, bribery and corruption charges, are unlikely to be returned leaving SBY as an administrative lame-duck President until the July 9 Presidential elections when, after the conclusion of his three terms and in a worsening economy, he must resign anyway.
(It’s ironic that half of Abbott’s obstructionist Senate gets the boot at the same time.)
Indonesian election rules require a party, or a coalition, to hold at least 20 percent of the seats or win at least 25 percent of the vote in the April legislative election to qualify to nominate a Presidential candidate.
SBY’s party may not even qualify as its polls dive and candidates are forced to pay their own election expenses because the Democrats have only been able to raise a war chest of the equivalent of $A4mil in rupiah.
So, not only is the current Government unlikely to win the April 9 legislative election but may not attract sufficient votes to allow it to even field a Presidential candidate later in the year.
SBY is now toying with nominating for Vice President and that’s a desperate move that can’t succeed.
Tony Abbott has done something Bill Shorten and co. could never have conceived of and, judging by their howls of criticism over a lack of information, don’t even understand now.
Trying to conduct illegal boat diplomacy against a backdrop of a ruling Party in survival mode is pointless and has resulted in no more than an Indonesian Government “tough talking” to its diminishing constituents.
They clearly don’t know, or even care, what is going on as the military once again dons the cloak of an interim Government.
The boats are being turned back, as Abbott said they would be, and much to the surprise of Shorten, Hanson-Young and SBY’s ministers.
The extent to which military palms have been greased will never be known, but there is no doubt they have been, using funds excised from the aid budget.
We are witnessing an Abbott Government masterstroke overseen by Morrison.
Abbott and Morrison quickly realised the Indonesian Government was in a state of flux and the military the only political constant. For SBY to have a barney with his military now would be bloody suicide and our, and their, military understands that.
With as much humility as I can muster, Pickering Post has been saying since early last year that Kevin Rudd’s boat disaster will only be resolved through the military with money saved from potential future costs... $14 billion so far, and as I said in a previous post, “five per cent of that goes a long way in the military brass”.
Bill Shorten needs to learn to play chess. SH-Y needs to stop playing with herself and either way it’s checkmate SBY!
Typical dimwitted red neck misunderstand standing on Indonesia's political environment.
Hint SBY losing is really bad for Australia
As far as I know it isn't a case of SBY losing.
He has to stand down, after two five year terms in office.
As far as I know it isn't a case of SBY losing.
He has to stand down, after two five year terms in office.
Thanks my mistake, Governor Jokowi is the likely winner a true Javanese and wont be any thing as pro Australian as SBY.
Record number of foreigners deported
Some 5,198 foreign citizens were expelled from the country in 2013, an increase of 31 percent since 2012, when 3,958 people were deported.
"It is the highest number we've had ever," Frode Forfang, head of the Directorate of Immigration (UDI), told NRK. "We believe that one reason for the increase is that the police have become more conscious of using deportation as a tool to fight crime."
Nigerian citizens topped the list of those expelled for committing crimes, with 232 citizens expelled as a punishment in 2013, followed by Afghan citizens with 136 expelled as a punishment, and 76 Moroccans expelled as a punishment.
Afghan citizens topped the list of those expelled for violating the Immigration Act, with 380 expelled for this reason, followed by Iraqi citizens, 234 were expelled for violating the act.
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