Attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen by Sri Lankan navy

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a young fisherman was dragged into the sea with a rope tied around his neck by the Lankan naval personnel

Seriously if this is true, why hasn't GoI taken diplomatic action by now. This is not a case of unintentional death anymore
 

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Pranab vows action on fishermen's killings

A fisherman from Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu was allegedly killed by the Sri Lankan Navy on Saturday night. The victim, 28-year-old N. Jayakumar, was from Pushpavanam fishing hamlet in Vedaranyam in Nagapattinam district.

Taking a serious view of the "killing of the two Tamil fishermen in 10 days" by the Sri Lankan Navy, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday assured Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi that the Centre would take up the issue with the Sri Lankan authorities.

On January 12, Veerapandian, a fisherman from Nagapattinam, was shot dead by the Sri Lankan Navy.

The island nation has denied involvement in the incident.

The killing of fishermen came up for discussion when Mr Mukherjee met Mr Karunanidhi at his Gopalapuram residence here on Sunday morning. Talking to reporters after the meeting, Mr Mukherjee said the Chief Minister was worried and anxious about the developments.

"I am told two fishermen have been killed in the last 10 days. There is no point or justification for shooting at the fishermen. If the fishermen had done anything wrong they could have been arrested and due process could be followed for resolving the issue," he said.

Pointing out that India had good relations with Sri Lanka and was helping the country, the Finance Minister said he would take it up with the Sri Lankan authorities through the Ministry of External Affairs. The Chief Minister announced a solatium of Rs. five lakh to the family of the latest victim.

Our New Delhi correspondent adds:

New Delhi on Sunday condemned the killing, and called on Colombo to investigate the matter and ensure that it does not recur.

External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna said that such killings were "unacceptable" and directed the Indian mission to submit a report.

The fisherman was killed on Saturday night while fishing off the Kodiakarai coast. Two others were injured.

The External Affairs Minister expressed the government's "strong and unequivocal condemnation" of the incident .

Mr. Krishna is expected to discuss the issue with his Sri Lankan counterpart G.L.Peiris.

PTI adds:

Sri Lanka rejected as "baseless" the allegation that its military had killed an Indian fisherman and wounded two others.

These "allegations are baseless and without proof," Sri Lankan Navy spokesman Captain Athula Senarth said.

"We have given strict instructions to our naval patrols and we ensure that these instructions are carried out," Senarth told reporters.


http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article1118652.ece
 

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This is second such incident that has occurred in the recent past,But amazingly still no patrolling by the coast guard!!!!This effing incident happened 20 nautical miles of their village and well within our territorial waters!!!The coast guard has to start patrolling and the investigations that has been ordered has to be completed before another Indian loses his life to these legal terrorists(whoever they might be).
Jai Hind.
 

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They have crossed the line this time :mad2:!

How many more of our fishermen have to die more to convince this shit government eh?! Any liberal intellectuals here waiting to bleed for the SL Navy now?

The IN should sink a patrol boat of SL Navy to make sure that they know where they are going. To HELL with diplomacy... if they want to take Chinese side, let them because of this payback. At least they will know that they won't last long if they keep killing our people like this.
 

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They have crossed the line this time :mad2:!

How many more of our fishermen have to die more to convince this shit government eh?! Any liberal intellectuals here waiting to bleed for the SL Navy now?

The IN should sink a patrol boat of SL Navy to make sure that they know where they are going. To HELL with diplomacy... if they want to take Chinese side, let them because of this payback. At least they will know that they won't last long if they keep killing our people like this.
Sinking is going a but too far!!!!!!
A Destroyer over there will make them piss their pants , should solve the problem
 

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somebody in SL Navy is working overtime to create bad blood between india and SL, to make matters easy for China and its whore !!!!
 

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Sinking is going a but too far!!!!!!
A Destroyer over there will make them piss their pants , should solve the problem
IN already has a presence in that area. Which is not being effective. By aggressive patrolling, it means that you apprehend any action against the country's people such as the case above. The SL Navy is doing just that. Which means, if we see them killing our Tamil fishermen, IN has to take retaliatory action which might mean warning the SL Navy and even firing at them. Small arms or rockets doesn't matter. But we cannot let them get away with murdering our people.

Already Pakistan got away with murdering 200 Indians in cold blood. We cannot afford to make any more mockery out of our national prestige.
 

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somebody in SL Navy is working overtime to create bad blood between india and SL, to make matters easy for China and its whore !!!!
This is conspiracy theory mate. Although I don't rule it out, the person who's working for China is simply a person in SL Navy doing so. And remember, the Sinhala Nationalist Rajapakse government isn't exactly genuinely friendly with us either. We extended our hand of friendship not for them to start killing our people. They have to be warned that if this happens again, we will have to reconsider aggressive retaliation.
 

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We should covertly capture sri lankans in the act and capture them then exucute them and send bodies back to sri lankan navy.
 

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It's stupid to kill a poor fisherman, even if he has crossed international waters. Crossing over into SL waters might be unintentional, the killing of the fisherman is not. SL navy could have warned the boats to back off.

IOR is our backyard and it's time to put the message across. An eye for an eye, it's time the IN takes out a whole SL navy ship.
Actually, it should be the Coast guard not IN who has the responsibility to guard coastal shores.. But South-Eastern command of coast guard is not that active as we do have in Western command...

This is not the first time, SL has involved in brutal murdering of our miserable fishermen... What did our government acted upon?? Last time, Krishna asked their external ministry to refrain action and they did denied the report.. Same this time too.. This is not going to work out until we have active and strengthened coastal guard starting from Rameshwaram till Kannyakumari..
 

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This is conspiracy theory mate. Although I don't rule it out, the person who's working for China is simply a person in SL Navy doing so. And remember, the Sinhala Nationalist Rajapakse government isn't exactly genuinely friendly with us either. We extended our hand of friendship not for them to start killing our people. They have to be warned that if this happens again, we will have to reconsider aggressive retaliation.
We have an excellent diplomatic government who thinks of solving all issues starting from 26/11 to till date, diplomatically.. Do you think our gov will take an aggressive stance against SL?
 

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We have an excellent diplomatic government who thinks of solving all issues starting from 26/11 to till date, diplomatically.. Do you think our gov will take an aggressive stance against SL?
Spineless, inept, lack of foresight and out of sync with national interests. Yes i am talking about GoI.
 

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If America or Russia were in our place, Sri Lanka would we wiped off the map by now.

It seems these lowlife Sri Lankans don't understand the basic law of South Asian hospitality, which is "don't take advantage of your neighbor's kindness".
 

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Getting the small countries in the IOC on our side is good for us, letting them go to the Chinese side will only increase their chances of putting pressure on us diplomatically as well as by under hand measures, every countries support we loose is a reduction in winability in a war in the IOR
How will it put pressure? See this is called reverse psychology. They know fool well that they can't do jack to us but knowing our government, they are taking the advantage that "let us be what we are or we will align to China".

India needs to be strong on some stances where it conveys that "you do that, and you're in heap load of trouble in conflict". Once such a message is conveyed in actions, all the posturing will be stopped.

Lame 'liberal' cowardice.
 

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What kind of economic ties do you have in mind, India just a month ago gave SL navy millions of dollars and they have thanked us by killing two of our fisherman and what does the govt do in response? Nothing.

If a nation isn't capable of defending its own people, then what other purpose does it have? UN seats and Super power status are useless if your people are dying, day-in and day-out.
make them dependent on us so we can force them to boycott any thing we don't like by simply threatening to push the break economic ties button......
 

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Do that we can kiss our International Good rep and chances of the permanent UNSC seat good bye....
Diplomacy is enough to keep the lankans at check they won't push the situation too far as they know that we can impose our will on them when ever we want to...
The dropping of supplies over the Jaffna peninsula is an example of this...
Do you know what it means to kill Indian civilians in Indian territorial waters?
Per international law, it counts as a declaration of war against India

When Georgia killed Russian civilians and peacekeepers in Ossetia two years ago, the Russians invaded Georgia and split the country into three parts.

Sri Lanka is even weaker than Georgia. Is there any reason besides absolute lack of resolve and strategic foresight why we are not taking decisive action?

Diplomacy is obviously not working.
 

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How will it put pressure? See this is called reverse psychology. They know fool well that they can't do jack to us but knowing our government, they are taking the advantage that "let us be what we are or we will align to China".

India needs to be strong on some stances where it conveys that "you do that, and you're in heap load of trouble in conflict". Once such a message is conveyed in actions, all the posturing will be stopped.
Shri lanka is having a big illusion about its potential despite the fact that it is just a pawn of chinese string of perl strategy. They are definitely taking advantage of situation and want to give message to us that "if you stop us we will align with china" as they think china can practically help them. Its time for india to clearly give message to all such countries that be gentle with India or they'll not have any future and all these countries specially shrilanka don't have any option to align with china.

We must clear the message in aggressive manner that IF YOU'LL ALIGN WITH CHINA, WE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO DO THIS AND TAKE ANY ACTION TO STOP YOU EITHER WITH TALK OR WITH MILITARY.
 

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