Comments: Struggling, dying to reach Australia

Dec. 20, p. 6

Australian politicians have blood on their hands. So, do their Indonesian counterparts.

It’s the blood of hundreds of asylum seekers who have perished in the Killing Seas trying to get from the archipelago to Australia.

They lost their lives because the politicians have failed to find a humane solution to the people smuggling curse. (By Duncan Graham, Malang, East Java)

Your comments:

Perhaps another cretinous journalist should learn the law before starting to write. When those asylum seekers get here they are greeted by warships, hate, abuse and torture. It’s not like we care about them — and it is not trafficking under international law.

Why doesn’t anyone whine about the 30,000 kids who die every day of the year because we waste money hunting and killing the innocent.
Marilyn Shepherd

If you saw a leaking and overcrowded boat in very poor condition would you put your wife and children aboard for a long voyage in a stormy sea?
Bram

Why is this Indonesia’s problem? These people are not Indonesians and they want to go to Australia. They paid to board an overcrowded, derelict boat. If the boat sank, then they got what they paid for. In fact, we should send the rescue operations bill to them.
Udin

The complexity of corruption cases in Indonesia getting more severe, but still the Indonesian government continues to fight.

Why doesn’t the Australian government correct itself on why this continues to happen?

Australia’s loose coastal control may be considered by the illegal immigrants to prevent refugees from illegally crossing borders and prompts them to keep coming to the country. How people only blame corrupt Indonesian officials?
Emrichy

Don’t blame Indonesia. It’s 100 percent Australia’s fault. The Howard government stopped the boats, but the government in Canberra now is incompetent.

The solution is really quite simple: reintroduce offshore processing and TPVs. It stopped the boats before and can do so again.
Peter