A nine-year-old girl made a heart-rending plea for asylum after a wooden refugee boat carrying hundreds of Sri Lankan refugees to Australia was detained in Indonesia, reports said on Thursday.
The little girl, named only as Brindah, choked back tears as she begged foreign governments to open their doors to some 255 ethnic Tamils fleeing Sri Lanka's war-torn north, TV footage showed.
"Please help us and save our lives, we are your children. Please think of us, please, please," said the girl, in pictures broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from the West Java port of Banten.
The prime minister blames economic hardship and wars in Sri Lanka, Iraq and Afghanistan for creating refugees.
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