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Maldives says sinks suspected Tamil Tiger vessel

COLOMBO, May 17 (Reuters) - The Maldives coast guard opened fire on and sank a vessel carrying suspected Tamil Tiger rebels on Thursday after a 12-hour standoff at sea in their southern territorial waters, the government said.

However one man who threw himself overboard before the clash and surrendered spoke the south Indian language Malayalam and not Tamil, and officials were treating the alleged rebel link with caution.

"We have sunk the vessel. We have captured the five people aboard," Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed told Reuters by telephone from the Maldivian capital of Male.

A government spokesman said one of the captured men said four people he believed to be Tamil Tigers had boarded his 80 ft (25 metre) fishing trawler at sea and loaded it with guns and mortar bombs.

He said there was confusion over an initial coastguard report that the man had identified himself as a Tamil Tiger.

"We are now treating this with caution, because the man was speaking Malayalam and not Tamil," said chief government spokesman Mohamed Shareef.

Sri Lanka's Navy has sunk several boats and trawlers in recent months suspected of trafficking weaponry for the Tigers across the Palk Strait that separates Sri Lanka and India.

Maldivians are mindful of an abortive coup attempt in 1988 by dissidents backed by Tamil paramilitaries from Sri Lanka, which ended in the Indian Navy chasing and sinking a vessel the plotters had tried to escape on with hostages.

The Tamil Tigers, fighting for an independent state in neighbouring Sri Lanka, were not immediately available to comment on the incident, which took place several hundred nautical miles off the south of the Maldives archipelago.

Source: Reuters

தமிழ் சிங்கள முஸ்லீம் புலிகளையடுத்து மலையாளப் புலியும் வந்துவிட்டதா? :unsure:

பிபிசி எப்பவும் புலிகளுக்கு எதிரான செய்திகளை வெளியிடுவதில் தயக்கம் காட்டியதேயில்லை. இதோ பிபிசியின் செய்தியறிக்கை. :angry:

Tamil 'rebels' held in Maldives

There have been sea clashes between rebels and Sri Lankan navy

The government of the Maldives says that a coastguard vessel has opened fire on a boat carrying suspected Tamil Tiger rebels from Sri Lanka.

A spokesman said this followed a stand-off which lasted roughly 12 hours in Maldivian territorial waters.

He said the vessel had been sunk and five people on board had been captured.

Despite a truce still being in place on paper, Sri Lanka has been sliding back towards civil war, with more than 4,000 people killed in the past 15 months.

The chief spokesman for the Maldives government Mohammed Hussain Sharif said the stand-off between its coastguard forces and the suspected rebel boats happened near an atoll, several hundred nautical miles south of the main archipelago.

He said the five people on board the boat were being questioned. There has been no immediate comment from the Tamil Tigers.

Mr Sharif said that the Maldives vessel had been fired upon first, and one of those held had said the others were armed Tamil Tigers.

Sea clashes

Earlier this month, a number of rebels were killed in a sea battle with the Sri Lankan navy off Sri Lanka's north-eastern coast.

The navy said it sank two Tamil Tiger boats, part of a flotilla of 26 rebel vessels, and killed at least 10 rebels.

The Tamil Tigers are fighting for an independent state in the north and east.

Clashes at sea and on land are now an almost daily occurrence. Both sides say they still respect the ceasefire and are responding to the other side's aggression.

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மலையாளப்புலி இல்லை ஒண்டுமில்லை

தமிழ்நாட்டு மீனவர் 12 பேரின் கடத்தலோடு தொடர்பு படுத்துவதற்காக இச்சம்பவம் திட்டமிட்டு மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்ட சதி என்று நினைக்கிறன்.

தமிழ்நாட்டு மீனவர்களுடன் ஒரு மலையாளியும் கடத்தப்பட்டிருந்தார்.

நான் நினைக்கிறன். தமிழரின் போராட்டத்தை நசுக்குவதற்கு இந்திய புலனாய்வுப் பிரிவு பாரிய சதி வேலைகளில் ஈடுபடத்தொடங்கி விட்டதுபோல. புலிகளால்தான் கடத்தப்பட்டது என்ற நாடகத்தை வலுப்படுத்த இந்தச்சம்பவம் உருவாக்கப்பட்டிருக்கலாம்.

அதுவும் முந்தைய மாலைதீவு புரட்சியின் காரனகர்த்தாவான இந்தியா மாலைதீவை புரட்சியிலிருந்து காப்பாற்றியதாகவும் போட்டிருக்கு

:unsure: இவர்களுக்கு எவ்வாறு பல விசயங்கள் உடணடியாக தெரியவருகிறது.

A trawler carrying weapons to the LTTE terrorists has been destroyed by the Maldivian coastguards this morning (17). According to the latest reports the trawler has sunk around 8:30 a.m. off Gaaff Alif atoll in the Maldivian waters.

The suspected trawler flying Sri Lankan ensign was first observed by the Maldivian fishermen last evening (16). As the trawler had opened fire at a local fishing trawler "Dhoni", the matter was immediately informed to the Maldivian coastguards.

The Maldivian coastguard vessels after a hot pursuit ordered the suspected trawler to stop. However, the trawler had ignored the orders and started firing at the coastguards. The Maldivian coastguards retaliated to the attack and destroyed the trawler.

News reports from Maldives indicate that five crew members who had jumped overboard from the destroyed boat were rescued by the Maldivian coastguards. "One man was captured on Wednesday evening when he jumped overboard. The four other men were captured this morning when they abandoned ship" the news reports said.

According to Government Spokesman of Maldives, Mohamed Hussein Shareef, it was the first crewmember rescued by the coastguards on Wednesday evening (16) that had revealed the LTTE connection to the incident. The crewmember speaking in South Indian Malayalam language had identified himself as a South Indian fisherman and told the coastguards that the trawler was smuggling arms and ammo for the LTTE.

He has further revealed that the four LTTE terrorists had hijacked the fishing vessel and threw the other crew members overboard along with the fishing equipment. The man has also claimed that he was spared because he is the Technical Officer on the boat, and was needed by the crew in case of breakdown.

Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports indicate that the destroyed trawler was the South Indian fishing vessel named "Sri Krishana" which was hijacked by the LTTE terrorists on 27th April 2007. According to the available information the boat had a crew of 12 Indian nationals when it was seized by the LTTE terrorists.

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