MV Ashika Royal Commission underway

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Updated October 27, 2009 17:59:34

Tonga's Royal Commission of Inquiry into the sinking of the ferry, MV Ashika, has begun its proceedings. In August the government owned Ashika sank taking over 70 lives, many of them women and children. The ferry now lies in water too deep for it to be salvaged. But with financial support from New Zealand and Australia, a Royal Commission of Inquiry will try and find out what happened, and who is responsible.

Presenter: Pacific Correspondent Campbell Cooney
Speakers: Tonga's Prime Minister Doctor Fred Sevele

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