SL Navy assaults six fishermen at Karainagar sea
SL navy attacked and severely injured six fishermen at Karainagar sea early morning on 18th January. Veluppillai Rajaratnam(54), Somu Ulakeswaramurthy(46), Murukesu Kanthasamy(40), Supramaniam Yogeswaran(36), Apputhurai Kirupaharan(39) and Mahalingam Singarasa(26) have been and admitted in the Jaffna teaching hospital. Two of them were seriously wounded.
The fishermen explained the incident: 
“We went for fishing about 10.00 pm on 17th January after obtaining permission as usual from the SLN sentry point, located at along the beach. Six of us went on 3 boats and anchored the boats to spread the net. We had lit the lamps in each boat according to the orders of the SLN. As we finished spreading the nets around 1.00 am SLN boats came towards us. 
They hit our boats with their boats and damaged them. Then they pulled us into their boats and attacked us with iron pipes and clubs. As they assaulted us theu repeatedly said, “Are you helping LTTE when we are dying?” Both arms Somu Ulakeswaramurthy’s were broken and Veluppillai Rajaratnam’s one arm and a leg were broken in the SLN attack. They continued to attack us for more than half an hour and also damaged our nets. Then we were left in our boats. We were unable to bring ourselves ashore for more than five hours due to the pain we were suffering. Finally, we managed to drive our boats to the shore”.
19 January 2006
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Europe which has a total population of 800 million is made up of 45 language based nation states. South Asia which has a total population of one billion, (1000 million) is comprised of four states. Who is preventing and therefore benefiting by limiting new nation-states in South Asia?
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