(Lanka-e-News-08.Aug.2012, 11.30PM) The SL Govt. had released 37 Chinese fishermen who were poaching on our territorial waters off the coast of Batticaloa even without producing them before the courts. These fishermen were arrested by the SL Navy . The Govt. is now concocting stories in defense of its illegal action , it is learnt.The Navy that arrested the poaching Chinese fishermen on the 6th had also arrested two local fishermen , which news was not revealed until later. . Subsequently however the police stated that two local fishermen too were arrested. The police on the 7th again informed that the Chinese nationals were employed in two trawlers of the SL shipping Co. and the two locals are representatives in charge of the two crafts.
The police thereafter said , , no Chinese national was produced before the court , and the wrongdoers are the two local representatives who had violated the conditions of the license , and hence they were produced before the Court and released on bail, the police added.
The SL Navy now says , the 37 Chinese nationals are to be entrusted to the custody of the Chinese Embassy office.
In the context of the MaRa regime enacting a drama and trying to paint a deplorable picture that Chinese who were thieves until yesterday are today benign Chinese , many serious questions have cropped up .
As there is a paucity of local fishermen , is the regime enrolling the Chinese fishermen ? What is the SL Co. referred to by the police that is so advanced to enroll Chinese and able to get work done from them? If there had been 37 Chinese employed in the fishing trawlers belonging to the local Co., they must be in possession of visa. Where are they ?
If the Govt. is so diligent and dynamic as to conduct an illegal raid on a news website , and arrest the staff including a tea maker lady , and sue them with zeal and zest , how is that the 37 Chinese who were law transgressors working in SL trawlers without employment visas until the 6th , transformed into law abiding Chinese on the 7th ?
It is being widely questioned whether the MaRa regime is applying double standards: as regards Chinese national thieves one standard, and for Indian Nationals and other countries, another standard ?
If the Govt. is so diligent and dynamic as to conduct an illegal raid on a news website , and arrest the staff including a tea maker lady , and sue them with zeal and zest , how is that the 37 Chinese who were law transgressors working in SL trawlers without employment visas until the 6th , transformed into law abiding Chinese on the 7th ?
It is being widely questioned whether the MaRa regime is applying double standards: as regards Chinese national thieves one standard, and for Indian Nationals and other countries, another standard ?
