[Reader-list] Fishers flay decision on marine

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Fishers flay decision on marine

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The National Fishworkers' Forum (NFF) and the Kerala Swathanthra Malsya
Thozhilali Federation have come out strongly against the decision to send
Massimiliano Latorre, one of two Italian marines involved in the killing of
two fishers off the Kerala coast, to Italy for treatment.

In a joint statement here on Saturday, NFF secretary T. Peter and
federation secretary Anto Elias termed the decision a challenge to the
fishing community in India. By observing silence in court on the issue when
there were sufficient treatment facilities in India, the Union and State
governments had bowed to the dictates of the Italian government, they said.

Mr. Peter and Mr. Elias said the stand taken by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and Chief Minister Oommen Chandy was a disgrace for the country and
wondered whether the Italian marine would return after treatment. Fishers
would stage a sit-in in front of the Secretariat on Tuesday. -- Special
Correspondent