Tow back boats by Australian Navy
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/10/us-australia-indonesia-asylum-idUSBREA1903F20140210
(Reuters) – On New Year’s day, 45 asylum seekers in a ramshackle wooden boat slid ashore on a small island off the Australian city of Darwin. Four others had been swept overboard that morning in rough seas and were believed dead.
The survivors, from Africa and the Middle East, stumbled onto the beach, thankful to find refuge on Australian soil. Or so they thought.
Within an hour, an Australian warship and other vessels arrived. Military personnel forced the asylum seekers back onto their wooden boat and towed it out to sea. Their destination: Indonesia.
Determining precisely what happened is difficult. But interviews with five of the passengers reconstructs a journey they say was marked by physical and verbal abuse.
Their accounts highlight just how far the newly elected conservative government of Prime Minister Tony Abbott is going to meet his election promise to…
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AuntyUta 
That is a horrible event. A tragic loss of life.
A tragic loss of life it is, dear IT. Thanks for commenting.
People who go out in ramshackle boats into the open sea to reach Australia must be really desperate. They come from countries where life for them is terribly unsafe. They usually come via Indonesia where they cannot see a future for themselves. The survivors of this particular boat apparently have been made to go back to Indonesia by the Australian navy.
The whole refugee problem is an immense problem. Where should these poor people go to?
Einen schönen Tag liebe Ute es ist so schrecklich der Verlust von Lieben nicht schön.Liebe Grüße von mir und alles Liebe Gislinde
Danke, liebe Gislinde. Ich denke, es ist schecklich, dass so viele Leute aus ihrer Heimat vertrieben werden. Wer soll sie alle aufnehmen?
Liebe Grüsse, Uta