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China coast guard kills 9 Vietnamese fishermen
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050114/1/3puow.html
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050113/1/3ptwe.html http://www.news.com.au/common/story_...5E1702,00.html Action urged on fisherman murders From correspondents in Hanoi January 14, 2005 VIETNAM today urged China to severely punish border guards it said shot dead nine Vietnamese fishermen who allegedly strayed into Chinese waters. The Chinese guards killed the nine when they opened fire on two fishing vessels during the night of January 9, foreign ministry spokesman Le Dung said. Seven people were injured and eight detained by Chinese authorities on Hainan island, he said. It is a serious affair, he said. Vietnam is asking China to take active measures to prevent this erroneous action from happening, to investigate the case and severely punish the murderers. The incident took place off the Thanh Hoa coast, which faces Hainan, in the Gulf of Tonkin about 200km south of Hanoi. China and Vietnam dispute some of the land and sea borders between them and have agreed several times to speed up the implementation of accords to resolve the disputes. Both have also pledged not to take extreme action or make use of force on fisheries-related issues. The countries are ideological comrades but historical foes; China invaded Vietnam in February 1979 following Hanoi's intervention in Cambodia to oust Beijing's Khmer Rouge allies. They came to blows again in 1988 in the disputed Spratly Islands, a potentially oil-rich archipelago in the South China Sea. Relations were normalised in 1991. Agence France-Presse |
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