Australian PM defended the decision to leave Afghan bodies in the water

"The asylum seekers whose drowned bodies were left in the Indian Ocean by Australian authorities are believed to have been Hazaras fleeing Afghanistan. As the prime minister, Julia Gillard, and the immigration minister, Brendan O'Connor, defended the decision to leave the bodies in the water on Monday to tend to other asylum seekers’ boats it has emerged those who died were likely to be from the mainly Shia Afghan ethnic group."