The Australian Navy told Sri Lankan asylum seekers to go back to Sri Lanka and die during interviews with asylum seekers, reports Colombo Gazette.
Two Tamil asylum seekers who were interviews by investigative journalist Phil Miller said that they had been told to go back to Sri Lanka and die, by Australian navy officials, who payed people smugglers to turn back.
One of the asylum seekers who was secretly interviews whilst being held at an Indonesian detention centre, in West Timor, said the message relayed to them was, “don’t come back this way, go and die.”
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