"BOATLOADS of asylum-seekers who have failed to make it to Australia are being intercepted trying to return to Malaysia from Indonesia, says the head of Malaysia’s border command.
Mohd Amdan Kurish, director-general of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, said Australia’s crackdown on boatpeople was having a dramatic impact further up the people-smuggling chain, in Malaysia.".
off course it is tragic that someone has died - but it seems that tensions had been simmering for sometime - and boaties were not happy, that the door had been shut to australia - and as is typical in australian detention centres, they chose to cause a disturbance.
personally, watso believes that those who are on manus, will eventually get to australia. stopping the boats is the only solution.
one thing for sure, is that for the time being, people will not really want to take a chance at being returned to indonesia - and on top of that, the thought of being sent to manus is now a real deterrent
