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`Uswetakeyyawa fishermen` arrested
Wednesday, 31 January 2007 - 2:54 AM SL Time
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Sri Lanka Navy have taken into custody six fishing craft and twelve fishermen at Uswetakeyyawa says All Ceylon Fisheries Union.
President of the Gampaha branch of the All Ceylon Fisheries Union (ACFU), Aruna Roshantha said the fishermen were arrested on Tuesday when they were returning after fishing.
Foiled port attack
There are twenty one fishermen among those arrested in connection with the alleged attack on the Colombo Port on Saturday.
`Our boats were fishing about 20 miles from Colombo in the deep sea when the Navy Dvora gunships sorrounded them`, Roshantha of ACFU said.
On the day navy arrested occupants in two boats and the same day night another six, Roshantha said.
These fisherman had seen a fishing bat attacked by the Navy.
`The boats caught up fire and blew up. Nine crew members from the blown up boats were detained. Three are still in custody`, he said.
He said one of the boats destroyed by the navy bearing no. OFRPA 1666MBO belongs to fishermen.
Military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe told BBC Sandeshaya that the navy spokesman will be providing the `necessary information` to the media at a briefing on Wednesday in Colombo.
Lankadeepa reports
Roshantha referring to this incident said, Lankadeepa newspaper carried a news items claiming that fishermen in Negombo had taken a bribe of Rs.10 million from the LTTE for spying.
He said this type of irresponsible reports are derogatory and harmful to the fishing community.
`Lankadeepa does not quote anybody from the Navy but merely say a spokesman`, Roshantha added.
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RohanUS
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1 Feb 2007 04:00:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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Since when the LTTE became sinhala fishermen? well, where is all the modiyas who said good job ??? where r they hiding now? when LTTE do the job they do it right and wait for the right timing...
just wanna let you all
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wk4pce
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1 Feb 2007 05:10:55 GMT Report for Abuse
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| May be the union is LTTE! There will be idiots who will believe that too. |
tamilcanuck
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1 Feb 2007 13:51:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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Probably because of this!!
By taking out a few fishing trawlers they might have infact helped the economy and insurance rates go north.
Union: Navy destroyed fishing boats, not Tiger craft
On Saturday Sri Lanka?s military said it had foiled a Tamil Tiger attack on the Colombo port and that three Sea Tiger boats had been destroyed. The navy said nine people had been arrested in connection with the attack. However, the All Ceylon Fisheries Union (ACFU) Tuesday contradicted the military and said the Navy had fired on fishing boats and arrested fishermen.
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=21097 |
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