SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Sunday said stopping people-smuggling boats was central to ending the wave of migrants fleeing to Southeast Asia, adding he would not criticise countries’ efforts to turn back the vessels.
Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand triggered outrage after turning back starving and helpless migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar’s oppressed Muslim Rohingya minority with little food and nowhere to go, and have come under increasing pressure to rescue them.
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