A Cautionary Tale on Sri Lankan Refugees
During the final quarter of 2009, a cargo ship called the Jaya Lastari, with 256 Tamil asylum seekers aboard, was impounded off the island of Java by the Indonesian navy. The Tamil asylum-seekers refused to disembark, saying they no longer had a country of their own.
The three-year-old story has relevance today because of the current drama of the Walleni…
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