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chennaiguuy
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 21 Jul 2008 05:13:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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India on Saturday summoned Sri Lanka s High Commissioner C.R. Jayasinghe and lodged a protest over last week s killing of two Indian fishermen allegedly by the Sri Lankan Navy.
N. Ravi, Secretary (East) in the External Affairs Ministry, called the Sri Lankan envoy and expressed 'deep concern' at the recent incidents involving Indian fishermen, particularly the July 12 incident in which two fishermen were killed, ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna said.
India also asked Sri Lanka to share the findings of the enquiry it has ordered into the July 12 incident.
New Delhi's protest to Colombo came amid pressure from Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK Chief, M. Karunanidhi who Saturday led his party workers on a fast across the state to protest the Sri Lankan Navy's alleged attacks on Indian fishermen.
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 21 Jul 2008 05:19:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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Atleast they release official figures & celebrate the dead.
unlike the barbarian WETAMILs, each month prime minister gives the causality figures ocf our forces in each month to the parliament! |
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21 Jul 2008 05:21:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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And Piruba will become president in his late 70's...and live forever....
Nelson Mandela celebrated his 90th birthday recently. |
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Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Romesh Jayasinghe was due to meet high officials of the Indian External Affairs Ministry yesterday at a specially arranged meeting. The objective of this meeting will be to discuss the incident relating to the killing of two Indian fishermen from Nagapattinam on the South Indian coast, while fishing off Point Calimere on July 11, 2008.
A highly volatile situation had arisen following this incident with Chennai based media pointing fingers at the Sri Lanka Navy for the killing of the two Indian fishermen and injuring another.
The allegation against Sri Lanka Navy has been raised at a crucial period where eight SAARC leaders are due to meet in Colombo shortly and at a time when LTTE is getting a severe beating from the Security Forces in the battlefront, and on the verge of confining their activities to a section of Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi districts.
An officer-cadet of the 25th Intake, is about to dive through Rings of Fire , one of the gymnastic events at the Parent s Day ceremony, to mark the completion of their first semester at the Kotelawela Defence University yesterday. An officer-cadet of the 25th Intake, is about to dive through Rings of Fire , one of the gymnastic events at the Parent s Day ceremony, to mark the completion of their first semester at the Kotelawela Defence Unversity yesterday. Pic: Suranjith Perera, Dehiwela-Mt.Lavinia Corr.
The Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama has already taken the initiative to respond to the allegations levelled against Sri Lanka Navy by the Chennai based media, flatly rejecting the allegations that Sri Lanka Navy has been involved in the incident.
Issuing a press release on July 15, 2008 the Foreign Ministry gave ample evidence to prove that not a single Naval craft was operating in the area where the unfortunate incident had taken place.
It was after extensive investigations carried out by the Naval Headquarters in Colombo regarding the incident, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the said statement to the media.
The preliminary findings in this case, as reported by the Navy are that there were no Naval units operating on the Sri Lanka side of the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) in the area off Point Calimere on 11th of July.
But the Navy has detailed records about an incident that had taken place on the same night but at a completely different location, approximately 8 nautical miles East of Point Pedro when two Sri Lanka Navy Fast Attack Craft deployed on a routine patrol detected on their radar, a boat moving in a suspicious manner at high speed of around 34 knots.
It has been identified by the Navy, as having the configuration of an LTTE low profile boat and when the suspect boat failed to respond to warnings to halt, the Naval craft has been constrained to open fire.
The Fast Attack Craft of the Navy had fired 13 rounds at the enemy boat using a 30 mm weapon at a distance of 3.8 Km but has failed to destroy the target. The SLN FAC had then returned to its designated patrol area after the craft had disappeared towards the IMBL North of Point Pedro.
However, it was not possible for the Navy vessel to assess the outcome of the action taken by them and accordingly the possibility of the suspect boat having continued on its northerly course cannot be ruled out.
The Sri Lanka Navy assures that the incident took place in the seas off Point Pedro was well within the Sri Lankan territorial waters and any of their Naval vessels had crossed the International Maritime Boundary Line between India and Sri Lanka.
The Navy, referring to Chennai based media reports which states that the incident off Point Calimere refers to over 20 bullet injuries on the body of one of the deceased, also argues that such injuries can occur only through firing at point blank range from small arms and ruled out the possibilities that the incident off Point Pedro has no connection with this incident as the two Naval craft had to engage suspicious boat from long range as it was travelling at a high speed.
Though, the Chennai based media pointing the fingers at the Sri Lanka Navy over this issue before proper inquiries are conducted to ascertain who was responsible for this incidents, the recent history relating to such incident have proved that they were stage managed incidents by the LTTE to create a rift between the two countries.
The recent media reports on the incident highlight the manner in which some pro-LTTE politicians taking this incident to exert pressure on the central Government taking this incident as a stepping stone.
In fact there is no need for the Sri Lanka Navy to cross the IMBL and attack Indian fishermen since they are maintaining cordial relationship with the Indian Coast Guards and also with the Indian Navy in the process of handling the issues relating to the fishermen poaching in Sri Lankan waters and the Sri Lankan fishermen crossing into Indian waters.
It is important to recall what the Director General of Police D. Mukherjee revealed on the way the LTTE directly involved in the killing of five Indian fishermen from Kanyakumari on March 29, 2007. When these Indian fishermen were killed the Sri Lanka Navy came under severe criticism as they were made responsible to the incident at the initial stage.
The facts relating to this incident were revealed after the Indian Coast Guard arrested six Sea Tiger cadres on board the fishing boat Maria on April 11, 2007 while it was on mission to smuggle arms from a ship to LTTE held areas and had drifted towards the Indian coast after developed an engine snag.
The arrested Sea Tiger cadres had admitted the fact that it was another group of LTTE cadres who had opened fire at the Indian fishermen killing all five of them. They also revealed that the LTTE had abducted 12 Indian fishermen, 10 from Kanyakumari and one each from Tuticorin and Kerala, on March 29 , 2007.
But they were later released by the LTTE after the Maldivian Coast Guard sunk the hijacked Indian fishing trawler Sri Krishna which was hijacked by the LTTE in March 2007, while it was smuggling arms on May 17, 2007.
However, the Indian fishermen from Kerala who were captives of the LTTE along with the fishing trawler, jumped out of the trawler before it was sunk by the Maldivian Coast Guards along with the LTTE cadres on board.
Later he had revealed the way the LTTE had hijacked their fishing boat and the way the Indian fishermen were held captive by the LTTE.
It was in the middle of Eastern battles the LTTE made these desperate attempts to create a friction between India and Sri Lanka. LTTE made this attempt to get Indian Govt s involvement in the Sri Lankan conflict since the LTTE cannot tolerate the way the Central government of India is backing the Sri Lankan Government in sphere of cracking down terror activities of the LTTE.
The story of the Selvam Sudesh Kannan from Madras an Indian national who was kept under LTTE custody was also another example to understand the behavior of the LTTE. |
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21 Jul 2008 05:23:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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Rasak,
Ah ! When the KIA are becoming MIA, who wants official figures ?
No wonder there are abt 12,000 desertors in army of 1,00,000 singlecelled guys. |
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21 Jul 2008 05:26:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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No wonder there are abt 12,000 desertors in army of 1,00,000 singlecelled guys.
there may have been deserters during the homo RWs CFA times, there is no such things in the army in the present!
so dream on! |
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21 Jul 2008 05:27:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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Over 67 have left the LTTE during the last month sources from the Vanni told Daily Mirror yesterday |
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 21 Jul 2008 05:27:25 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Chennai, will the Indians attack SL Navy for killing two Indian fishermen the way they have attacked LTTE for using Indian fishermen for smuggling arms across Indian waters? |
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Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi, chief minister of the Tamil Nadu state of India, cautioned the Indian Government on Saturday that his state wouldn't hesitate to seek the retrieval of Kachchatheevu from Sri Lanka if the rights of the Tamil Nadu fishermen are not safeguarded. The timing and intensity of the demand leads to wide-ranging speculations among observers.
After inaugurating a state wide, day-long fast by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the state's ruling party, he called upon New Delhi to take up the issue of Sri Lanka Navy's attacks on Indian fishermen, at the SAARC summit to be held in Colombo in August. A delegation of DMK's Members of Parliament is expected to call on the Indian Prime Minister on Sunday, seeking his immediate intervention in the fishermen's issue, according to news reports from Chennai.
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In 2008, the past six months the Tamil Tigers lost 1128 carders. As its happen we announce our heroes name over our radio broadcast. Further on monthly basic we release our updated list of our fallen heroes, said a person belong to the Hero's department to the Media.
but according to UTHCR over 5000 cannibals have died in vanni alone this year! |
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