Cover-up claims remain 20 years after 353 asylum seekers drowned

Front page of The Australian from October 2001

Front page of The Australian from October 2001 Source: SBS

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Two decades ago hundreds of asylum seekers drowned after a small boat, the SIEV-X, sank trying to reach Australia from Indonesia.

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