HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam has protested China for reportedly assaulting its fishermen in disputed waters in the South China Sea.
Thursday’s Vietnam News quotes Foreign Ministry spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi as saying Chinese action “seriously infringed” upon Vietnam’s sovereignty and “gravely threatened lives and property.”
The newspaper says China used force to threaten 11 Vietnamese fishermen on a vessel on Feb. 22 and prevented them from entering the Paracel islands to avoid a storm. The paper also says Chinese forces were reported to have assaulted the fishermen and tried to take their property.
The newspaper says the Vietnamese foreign ministry has met with Chinese embassy officials to lodge protests.
China has occupied the disputed Paracels since 1974.
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2 comments:
Let’s take a look at a situation where a navy ship heavily equipped with guns and missiles saw small fishing boats,unarmed, wandering into the water that the navy ship was guarding.
What would that navy ship should act or behave toward those small fishing ships looking for shelter due to the big wind? In a civilized maritime law, the navy ship should have come into the rescue of the small ships in danger and then direct those ships out of their turf.Instead, this navy ship shot at unarmed fishermen and beat them up and confiscated all of the catches, worth of $25,000. Is it a normal conduct of a navy? or the behavior of the navy ship was just like any pirates using force to brutalize unarmed people and rob their catches.
http://www.eyedrd.org/2012/02/chinese-navy-hegemony-continues-to-bully-its-neighbors-and-acts-as-pirates.html
Let’s take a look at a situation where a navy ship heavily equipped with guns and missiles saw small fishing boats,unarmed, wandering into the water that the navy ship was guarding.
What would that navy ship should act or behave toward those small fishing ships looking for shelter due to the big wind? In a civilized maritime law, the navy ship should have come into the rescue of the small ships in danger and then direct those ships out of their turf.Instead, this navy ship shot at unarmed fishermen and beat them up and confiscated all of the catches, worth of $25,000. Is it a normal conduct of a navy? or the behavior of the navy ship was just like any pirates using force to brutalize unarmed people and rob their catches.
http://www.eyedrd.org/2012/02/chinese-navy-hegemony-continues-to-bully-its-neighbors-and-acts-as-pirates.html
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