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Indian navy mistaken Thai trawler for pirate boat
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 25 - 11 - 2008


An international martime
agency said Wednesday that a boat sunk by India's navy last
week near Somalia was a Thai fishing trawler not a pirate
«mother vessel,» but the Indian navy defended its action,
saying that it fired in self-defense.
Noel Choong, who heads the International Maritime Bureau's
piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur, said one Thai crew
member died when the Indian frigate INS Tabar fired on the
boat in the Gulf of Aden on Nov. 18.
Fourteen others are missing while a Cambodian sailor was
rescued four days later by passing fishmermen, he said. The
IMB received a report on the apparent mistake late Tuesday
from Bangkok-based Sirichai Fisheries, which owned the
Ekawat Nava5 vessel, he was quoted as saying by Associated Press.
«The Indian navy assumed it was a pirate vessel because
they may have seen armed pirates on board the boat which
has been hijacked earlier,» Choong said.
India's navy last week said the INS Tabar, which began
patrolling the gulf on Nov. 2, battled a pirate «mother
vessel» on Nov. 18, setting the ship ablaze.
In New Delhi, Indian navy spokesman Commander Nirad Sinha
said Wednesday that the ship apparently had been hijacked
by pirates and that the INS Tabor was responding to the
pirates' threat to attack.
«In so far as we are concerned, both its description and
its intent were that of a pirate ship,» he said. «Only
after we were fired upon did we fire. We fired in self
defense. There were gun-toting guys with RPGs on it.»
«Pirates take over ships,» he said. «They've been doing
that since the days of Long John Silver.»
Choong said Sirichai Fisheries found out about the mishap
after speaking to the Cambodian sailor, who is now
recuperating in a hospital in Yemen. The trawler was headed
from Oman to Yemen to deliver fishing equipment when it was
hijacked, he said.
«We are saddened with what has happened. It's an
unfortunate tragedy. We hope that this incident won't
affect the anti-piracy operation by the multi-coalition
navies there,» Choong added.


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