How will Identity Cards Stop Sri Lankan Navy Shooting Tamil Nadu Fishermen?
Usha Ramanathan TAMIL TRIBUNE, September 2009 (ID. 2009-09-02) This article is archived at: http://www.tamiltribune.com/09/0902.html Sri Lankan navy shooting and killing Tamilnadu fishermen is going on for a quarter of a century with no end in site. In spite of repeated requests from Tamilnadu state chief ministers, other political leaders and fishermen’s associations, Indian government has done nothing effective to stop these killings. Shootings go on with impunity. To avert attention from its failure to stop the killings, Indian government and Tamilnadu state government now and then make statements that the fishermen would be issued identification cards (ID cards) and that would end the shootings. This writer is at a loss as to how ID cards would end the shootings. How do these shootings happen? In every single instance of killing or shooting, surviving fishermen report that Sri Lankan navy men came in boats or ships and simply shot at fishermen’s boats. How does having identificatio
