Honble Chief Minister texted of the D.O letter addressed to the Honble Prime Minister on the frequent incidents of attacks and harassment of innocent Tamilnadu fishermen
Date: August 20, 2012 Jayalalitha noticed a worrisome incident of attack and harassment of innocent Tamilnadu fishermen by the srilankan navy on August 18, 2012. Fire dice glass reinforced plastic boats belonging to vellapullam and vanavanmadevi fishing villages in vedaranyam taluk at Nagapattinam district of Tamilnadu ventured into the sea for fishing on August 17 and 18, 2012 with 18 fishermen on board. On August 18, 2012 near vellapullam the fishermen in the above 5 boats were brutally attacked by srilankan navy personnel. Also the naval personnel seized their ice boxes, foods and other fishing implements in the boats and dumped them into the sea. They also cut the nets laid by the fishermen. Thiru kuppusamy s/o Mr. Ramaiah was inflicted with series injuries with a knife on his right wrist. In addition to 7 other fishermen who sustained minor injuries due to assault with rubber rods. Jayalalitha explained this incident in this letter. Also she remembered the earlier letters on july ...