In today’s edition
of Inside Story former Ambassador Tony
Kevin, author of Reluctant Rescuers
and the earlier “A Certain Maritime Incident”, his account of the SIEV X
tragedy, analyses the findings of the West Australian Coroner in the matter of 102 deaths (seventeen
bodies retrieved and a further eighty-five people presumed drowned) in the case
of SIEV 358, an overloaded asylum-seeker boat that capsized at around 4.30 am
Perth time on 21 June last year.
Tony Kevin, who was
International Whistleblower of the Year in 2002 for his work on SIEV X,
attended the five days of the hearings and his analysis of the findings raises
a number of important issues about this tragic episode and some disturbing aspects
of the behaviour of key Australian agencies.
Read his analysis here.
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