Asylum seekers flown back to Sri Lanka from Cocos Islands
The Australian Labor party has called on the Aussie government to assure the Australian people it has not returned refugees to harm, after officials bundled a group of asylum seekers on to a chartered flight to Sri Lanka.
The asylum seekers, whose wooden boat made it to within 500 metres of the Cocos Islands on Monday, were flown to Colombo in a highly-secretive operation under the cover of darkness on Thursday night. The government has refused t