Jul 12, 2012

SRI LANKA: More people boarding boats to Australia

SRI LANKA: More people boarding boats to Australia:
COLOMBO, 12 July 2012 (IRIN) - When Arunalan*, 20, decided to go on the dangerous 8,000km journey by boat to Australia, his family wasn't surprised. “There are no jobs in Sri Lanka,” his mother told IRIN. But instead he has joined a growing number of young men - mostly from the conflict-affected north and east - in jail.

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