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Sri Lanka denies charges of Navy involvement in the deaths of 77 Indian fishermen
Sunday, 13 May 2007 - 6:42 AM SL Time
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Days after India accused the Sri Lanka Navy of killing 77 Indian fishermen over the last few years, Sri Lanka today vehemently rejected the claims and said, `There is absolutely no evidence to link the Sri Lanka Navy with attacks on Indian fishermen.`
Issuing a detailed statement, the Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry said, `The policy followed by the Government of Sri Lanka and her Security Forces towards fishermen from India, with which Sri Lanka has longstanding and close ties, is designed to preclude any such happening.`
The full statement follows:
The attention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been drawn to recent written responses to Indian Parliamentary questions regarding incidents involving fishermen from Tamil Nadu. These responses claim the involvement of the Sri Lanka Navy in attacks and killings of the fishermen.
In this context, the Ministry wishes to draw attention to the following:
(a) There have over the years been increasingly heavy incursions by Indian fishing vessels across the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) into Sri Lanka waters. The monthly observations of crossings of the IMBL by Indian fishing vessels amounts to not less that 5000. The LTTE uses the cover of the presence of these fishing vessels for their illicit activities, including to launch attacks on naval and coastal units of the Sri Lanka Security Forces. Despite the grave constraints thereby created, the Sri Lanka Navy applies and will always continue to apply an absolutely humanitarian stance vis-à-vis the Indian fishermen;
(b) Whenever there are reports alleging the involvement of the Navy in incidents involving Indian fishermen, Navy Headquarters in Colombo institutes the most diligent and scrupulous inquiries. The procedure involves firstly determining if any Sri Lanka Naval craft has been deployed in the vicinity of the alleged incident. If any craft has been deployed, an assessment is made as to whether ammunition has been expended. The outcomes of all the inquiries have established absolutely no involvement by the Sri Lanka Navy. As a further step, the findings of the inquiry and the process of investigation leading to the conclusion are shared with the Indian High Commission in Colombo;
(c) Sri Lanka has at the highest levels of governance made it a point to reiterate to the Indian authorities the Navy`s policy of humanitarian treatment of Indian fishermen crossing the IMBL. Practical proposals have also been presented concerning ways and means whereby the incursions could be contained, in the best interest of the two nations;
(d) The Director-General of Police of Tamil Nadu issued a Press Note dated 27th April 2007 identifying on the basis of investigations of `six Sri Lankan Tamils belonging to the LTTE`s Sea Tigers Wing` by the `Q Branch Police` of Tamil Nadu, the complicity of the LTTE boat `Maria` in the killing of five fishermen from Kanyakumari on 29th March 2007. Prior to the issue of this Press Note, there had been irresponsible speculation alleging the involvement of Sri Lankan Navy.
It would be seen from the above that there is absolutely no evidence to link the Sri Lanka Navy with attacks on Indian fishermen. Moreover, the policy followed by the Government of Sri Lanka and her Security Forces towards fishermen from India, with which Sri Lanka has longstanding and close ties, is designed to preclude any such happening.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is issuing this Press Release in order to set the record straight.
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tigeress19
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 12 May 2007 23:45:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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Article: Sri Lanka denies charges of Navy involvement in the deaths of 77 Indian fishermen
hey sorry lenka ,,come with solid evidence!!
Edited By - tigeress19 - 12 May 2007 23:45:54 GMT |
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12 May 2007 23:53:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sri Lanka denies charges of Navy involvement in the deaths of 77 Indian fishermen
Sri Lanka never killed Tamuils in the anti-Tamil riots
SL never kidnap and kill Tamils
SArmy nver kidnap children to train as Karuna cadres.
SL never extort money from Tamil businessmen
SL never killed 15 aid workers
SL never killed 10 Muslim workers
SL never bomb and kill school girls and civilians
SL never closed A9 and A15 and stopped food and medicine reaching Tamils
SL never enacted Sinhala Only as the Official Language
They were fabricated to tarnish her reputation. |
Thambi
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 12 May 2007 23:55:41 GMT Report for Abuse
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The GoSL is a terrorist state and a county listed as a failed sates .
what els has been denied by GoSL ?
THARSINI'S RAPE,
ALLAIPIDDY MASSACRE ,
VANKAALAI MASSACRE ,
MANNAR MASSACRE ,
PESAALAI MASSARE
SENCHOLAI CHILDREN KILLING
17 AIDS WORKERS,
11 MUSLIMS,
5 STUDENTS
IN TRINCO ,etc,etc
so we will believe them , get lost ! GoSL will make a former announcement for another international investigation and the mater over by next day , a real terrorist state ! |
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 12 May 2007 23:56:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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| When srilanka accept the fault..if it is mistake even they never accept..they try to put all the blames on LTTE...now the present situation a singalease lady get pragnent ..the husband will say..i am not..this was done by kottiya |
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12 May 2007 23:57:37 GMT Report for Abuse
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No point denying your murderous acts. You sinhalas not only murder Eelam tamils but also Indian tammils.
Anthony wouldn't have said it if there weren't enough proof.
You can't talk your way out of this you silly murderous sinmods. |
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Sri Lanka denies charges of Navy involvement!
Bishop decries Sri Lanka attack
A Sri Lankan bishop has written to the Vatican accusing the country's navy of a grenade attack on a church in which a woman died and 40 others were hurt.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5102456.stm |
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13 May 2007 00:01:04 GMT Report for Abuse
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Yo, sorry lanka ! get ready for the big match !
Tiger air fleet
What is shocking however are reports in the Tiger grapevine that they have as many as 17 aircraft, some more powerful than the two put on display, which have been kept on reserve for bigger battles to seize the initiative.
Needless to say, the Tiger air strikes have had a debilitating effect on the country?s economy and further attacks will see the entire economy nose-diving and hyperinflation taking control with the government forced to print more money to fund the war.
Mind you, at a time the government was projecting a rosy picture on the successes in the war front, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse was to say, it would take between two to three years to wipe out the LTTE, calculations which will now have to be revised given the Tigers? display of their air power. The question then is whether the economy can sustain such a war effort. |
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13 May 2007 00:01:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Article: Sri Lanka denies charges of Navy involvement in the deaths of 77 Indian fishermen
soon the *FULL OF FAKE SINHALESE * will claim the Indian minister ANTHONY and the Indian govt is on the *LTTE* payroll!! |
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13 May 2007 00:04:21 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thambi/Nirupam
army/navy/STF never kills, it is a human rights org :))) |
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