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| Killing of Indian fishermen unaccep |
| Killing of Indian fishermen unacceptable, says Pranab
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| INDIA
, 23-January-2011
9:31:28 AM |
| Another Indian fisherman has allegedly been killed by the Sri Lankan navy while fishing off Kodiakarai coast yesterday. This makes it the second fisherman to have died in the past ten days.
External Affairs Minister, SM Krishna, has strongly condemned the violent killing of the Indian fisherman.
Sri Lanka has rejected as "baseless" the allegation that its military was involved in the killing of an Indian fisherman.
These "allegations are baseless and without proof," Sri Lankan Navy spokesman Captain Athula Senarth said
The 28-year-old, Jeyakumar, still traumatised by his experiences during the tsunami of 2004 was unable to move when the Lankan navy took over their fishing boat and ordered him and his two colleagues to jump into the sea.
So they tied a rope round his neck, pushed him into the water and dragged him along until he died.
And that's how he was found by his two surviving colleagues, with a rope round his neck.
More than two hundred Indian fishermen have fallen to Lankan bullets in the last three decades. This is perhaps the first time a gruesome attack of this kind has been reported.
"We can't go into the sea. Let all fishermen in hundreds of villages go towards Sri Lanka. Let them kill all of us. We need a solution," said Kadirvel, Jeyakumar's relative.
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