11.   And, unlike Australia, which had a history of taking in migrants, Germany had always been an country of emigrants, as opposed to one of immigrants.

12.   It said the aircraft was a transporter that had earlier been used to take Vietnamese migrants from Hong Kong to Hanoi, under a forced repatriation programme.

13.   The migrants were taken on a fleet of buses Tuesday to a military base near Bari in the Apulia region of southern Italy.