Australia's asylum seeker governance has revealed heinous failures.
December 2, 2014
December 2, 2014
Sailors from the Royal Australian Navy (click here for video) have described the torment and psychological distress of having to fish asylum seeker bodies out of the ocean as part of the country's border protection operations during the Labor government.
On the ABC's 7.30 program, several members of the navy have spoken of arriving at ghastly scenes of bodies in the water and the lack of support they received from the navy following the rescue missions as asylum-seeker boats made their way to Australian shores.
One serving navy officer, "Michael", told the ABC that on one instance his boat was delayed for 15 hours and they had reports that a boat had sunk 13 hours ago.
"All we found was probably a line about 70 miles long of bodies," he said....
