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December 21st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Indonesian rescue workers help an asylum seeker. Picture: AFP
Source: Herald Sun
UPDATE 7.50pm: INDONESIAN rescuers have found the bloated and rotting bodies of dozens of asylum seekers from an overloaded boat that capsized en route to Australia.
At least 47 survivors were rescued after the vessel, which had a capacity of 100 but was carrying 250 mostly Afghan and Iranian migrants, sank 40 nautical miles off eastern Java early Saturday.
Hopes of finding more survivors dwindled after the terrible discovery.
“Rescuers have brought 30 bodies to the shore while 10 others are on a navy ship heading to shore,” East Java search and rescue agency chief Sutrisno said.
“There are still many bodies scattered and floating on the waters, we cannot tell you how many exactly.
“We found them floating in the waters near Banyuwangi district, 320km away from where the boat capsized on Saturday.”
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It comes two days after another 13 asylum seekers were found alive 250km from where the boat sank.
An AFP reporter on the scene said that at least one of the bodies brought ashore was of a young boy around seven or eight-years-old.
Rescue workers said some bodies were so decomposed that their limbs came off as they were pulled out of the water.
Thirty-four migrants were plucked from shark-infested waters by fishermen on Saturday, and 13 others were found drifting in a dinghy on Monday.
While most survivors have been unable to speak coherently due to exhaustion and shock, some of the 13 told harrowing tales of clinging to wreckage for three days in violent seas, before being rescued by a passing boat.
Survivors also said that crew members and migrants had fought over about two dozen life vests on the doomed boat, and that the crew had abandoned the ship after the vessel capsized in stormy weather.
Officials said they were trying to establish whether two Indonesians found Monday near eastern Java’s Malang city were crew members. One of the Indonesians told AFP he was a fisherman.
Survivors said they were heading to Christmas Island, a favoured destination for people-smugglers lying closer to Indonesia than Australia, where nearly 50 would-be migrants are believed to have died in wild seas during a shipwreck in December 2010.
The latest capsize is considered the “largest loss of life” yet from a sinking of one of the many boats packed with Asian and Middle Eastern migrants who undertake the perilous sea voyage from Indonesia to Australia.
Nine migrants died last month when another overloaded boat filled with migrants heading for Australia sank in Indonesian waters.
Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare on Monday said Indonesia had requested help from Australian police to investigate people-smugglers, who he said had showed a “callous disregard for human life”.
Australian police are already assisting in investigations, Indonesian police chief of general crimes Ari Dono Sukmanto said.
“We are chasing people-smuggling suspects. Migrants have told us that several people are involved in this case. They are part of a syndicate involving Indonesian and foreign people-smugglers,” Sukmanto said.
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