Statesman News Service
Chennai, Jan. 13: A few days after the BJP opposed the Centre’s military aid to the Sri Lankan government, AIADMK supremo Ms Jayalalitha and her ally MDMK leader Mr Vaiko sought action to end the Sri Lankan navy’s continuing attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen.
Mr Sekar(38) was injured when the Sri Lankan navy surrounded the fishermen and fired at them near Dhanuskodi in the Indian waters.
Describing the firing on Tamil Nadu fishermen yesterday, in which one of them from Rameswaram was seriously injured, as "a cowardly attack” by the Sri Lankan navy, Ms Jayalalitha said: “We cannot allow continuous attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy as this would destroy their livelihood.”
In a statement here, she alleged that the actions of the Sri Lankan navy were exceeding the limit. Mr Vaiko, in a letter to Prime Minister Dr Manm-ohan Singh, referred to the statement by Commodore PE Van Haltren, naval officer-in-charge of Tamil Nadu, who defended the Sri Lankan navy's attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen, said:
Echoing the views of state BJP president Mr L Ganesan, who termed the involvement of India in the island's conflict as “anti-Tamil,” Mr Vaiko said the UPA government was giving logistic support and supplying arms to "Sri Lanka's racist government to enable it to perpetrate its bloodthirsty attacks against the Tamils, with the sole aim to liquidate the Tamil race on the island”.
Because of this condemnable attitude and action of the Indian government, the Tamil Nadu fishermen were attacked and killed by the Sri Lankan navy, he charged.
Source: thestatesman.net
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