The Statesman editorial: Lankan navy and Tamil fishermen incidents

The link is here. Editorials 21 February 2011 RESPOND ROBUSTLY Lanka can’t get away with it KILLINGS, assaults, abductions and arrests. Such has been the high-handed and hardly civilised manner in which the Sri Lankan authorities, its Navy in particular, have been dealing with long-standing disputes over fishing rights that Tamil Nadu is approaching foment [...]

Apropos tamil fishermen killings by Sri Lankan navy

Here is an interesting article or rather an editorial from the well respected newspaper based in Calcutta, The Statesman. Unfortunately, the e-version of the newspaper does not redirect well to its archives. The URL is here and part of the editorial below. Maybe it is time to invoke the “son of the soil” theory in [...]