Chennai sources have stated that Strongly condemning the “unprovoked” firing in the Palk Bay allegedly by Sri Lankan Navy in which a 21 year old fishermen died late on Monday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to summon the Srilankan High Commissioner to India and convey the strong feelings of the Central and State governments against the incident.
Meanwhile in his letter to the Prime Minister, which was released to media on Tuesday, Mr. Palaniswami said that the non-adherence to earlier agreements on the issue “should be conveyed in no uncertain terms” to the High Commissioner. The Chief Minister referred to the incident as “cold blooded, inhuman, horrific and illegal barbaric killing of a young Indian fisherman from Tamil Nadu.”
Palaniswami had said that “I also urge the government of
India to ensure that the safety and security of its citizens from Tamil Nadu,
who pursue their humble avocation of earning a livelihood by fishing in their
traditional waters of the Palk Bay is fully protected".
In the strongly-worded letter, the Chief Minister said that the incident marked a “new low in the inhuman and cruel manner” in which the Sri Lankan Navy was dealing with a sensitive livelihood issue and further condemned the incident. The Srilankan Navy was “resorting to tactics involving greater cruelty and unnecessary use of force in an attempt to scare away our fishermen from exercising their traditional rights".
