A Travel and vacations forum. TravelBanter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » TravelBanter forum » Travel Regions » Australia & New Zealand
Site Map Home Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

China coast guard kills 9 Vietnamese fishermen



 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old January 15th, 2005, 10:46 AM
Jane
external usenet poster
 
Posts: n/a
Default 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

 




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
China coast guard kills 9 Vietnamese fishermen Jane Asia 0 January 14th, 2005 12:10 PM
Farangs describe the Disaster to BBC [email protected] Asia 62 December 31st, 2004 06:34 PM
China - The Internet Travel Guide (FAQ) (part 3/3) http://www.pmgeiser.ch, Peter M. Geiser Asia 0 December 27th, 2003 10:13 AM
China - The Internet Travel Guide (FAQ) (part 2/3) http://www.pmgeiser.ch, Peter M. Geiser Asia 0 December 27th, 2003 10:12 AM
Coast Guard Medevacs From Ship! Ray Goldenberg Cruises 0 September 30th, 2003 03:01 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 07:49 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 TravelBanter.
The comments are property of their posters.