*Ø* SIEVX whistleblower book hits the stands
This boat is not SIEVX.
SIEVX was smaller & carried nearly 200 more passengers.
On October 19, 2001, the refugee boat SIEVX sank in Australian waters; 353 men, women and children drowned.
Sign the SIEVX online memorial
Aussie whistleblower and former Ambassador to Poland,Tony Kevin, has written a book, A Certain Maritime Incident, exposing an Australian gov't cover-up. Tony Kevin is virtually unemployed because of the stand he has taken, along with many other SIEVX activists who are still having a hard time getting the story heard. Please spread the word. A federal election is due in Australia about the time of the US one, and George W Bush would like to see the current right-wing Howard government returned, to help his own political fortunes. Remember how upset he was when the Spanish voters threw out his war buddies?
Please pass it on.
Noam Chomsky writes:
"The treatment of refugees is one of the great scandals of the modern age… With impressive courage and determination, Tony Kevin has unearthed the grim and deeply moving story he recounts in this remarkable book – an "always powerfully contested story," and one of "durable national significance" that has "crept into the hearts and consciences of many Australians" and must find its way to the hearts and consciences of many others if these persistent and shocking crimes are to be brought to end."
Tony Kevin writes:
"I retired from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1998, after a thirty year public service career involving posts in DFAT and Prime Minister’s Department. My last postings were as Australia’s ambassador to Poland (1991-94) and Cambodia (1994-97).
"I have been an honorary Visiting Fellow at ANU [Australian National University] Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies since 1998. I have also since 2001 given a seminar course on UN peacekeeping at Melbourne University Institute of Asian Languages and Societies. In the past five years I have written extensively, from a standpoint increasingly critical of the present government, on a range of Australian foreign, national security and refugee policies.
"Since February 2002, assisting in the public investigation of the sinking south of Java on 19 October 2001 of the asylum-seeker boat that took 353 lives, and which I named SIEV X ( i.e., 'Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel, Unknown'), has become my main research activity. I see SIEV X as a major human tragedy that happened on Australia’s border protection military watch, and that raises disturbing unresolved questions about the Australian government’s cover-up of suspected criminality.
"I am now firmly of the view, on the basis of substantial, albeit as yet incomplete, public evidence, that the sinking of SIEV X was the result of planned acts of sabotage in Indonesia, involving use of undercover agents under a people smuggling disruption program that was being conducted by elements of the Indonesian police, who had been trained and funded by Australian police; and that Australian government agencies have much more knowledge of this suspected crime against humanity than they have so far admitted to the Australian Senate or people."
Tony Kevin Source
This boat is not SIEVX.
SIEVX was smaller & carried nearly 200 more passengers.
On October 19, 2001, the refugee boat SIEVX sank in Australian waters; 353 men, women and children drowned.
Sign the SIEVX online memorial
Aussie whistleblower and former Ambassador to Poland,Tony Kevin, has written a book, A Certain Maritime Incident, exposing an Australian gov't cover-up. Tony Kevin is virtually unemployed because of the stand he has taken, along with many other SIEVX activists who are still having a hard time getting the story heard. Please spread the word. A federal election is due in Australia about the time of the US one, and George W Bush would like to see the current right-wing Howard government returned, to help his own political fortunes. Remember how upset he was when the Spanish voters threw out his war buddies?
Please pass it on.
Noam Chomsky writes:
"The treatment of refugees is one of the great scandals of the modern age… With impressive courage and determination, Tony Kevin has unearthed the grim and deeply moving story he recounts in this remarkable book – an "always powerfully contested story," and one of "durable national significance" that has "crept into the hearts and consciences of many Australians" and must find its way to the hearts and consciences of many others if these persistent and shocking crimes are to be brought to end."
Tony Kevin writes:
"I retired from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1998, after a thirty year public service career involving posts in DFAT and Prime Minister’s Department. My last postings were as Australia’s ambassador to Poland (1991-94) and Cambodia (1994-97).
"I have been an honorary Visiting Fellow at ANU [Australian National University] Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies since 1998. I have also since 2001 given a seminar course on UN peacekeeping at Melbourne University Institute of Asian Languages and Societies. In the past five years I have written extensively, from a standpoint increasingly critical of the present government, on a range of Australian foreign, national security and refugee policies.
"Since February 2002, assisting in the public investigation of the sinking south of Java on 19 October 2001 of the asylum-seeker boat that took 353 lives, and which I named SIEV X ( i.e., 'Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel, Unknown'), has become my main research activity. I see SIEV X as a major human tragedy that happened on Australia’s border protection military watch, and that raises disturbing unresolved questions about the Australian government’s cover-up of suspected criminality.
"I am now firmly of the view, on the basis of substantial, albeit as yet incomplete, public evidence, that the sinking of SIEV X was the result of planned acts of sabotage in Indonesia, involving use of undercover agents under a people smuggling disruption program that was being conducted by elements of the Indonesian police, who had been trained and funded by Australian police; and that Australian government agencies have much more knowledge of this suspected crime against humanity than they have so far admitted to the Australian Senate or people."
Tony Kevin Source
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