After they killed two Vietnamese sea poachers
By Mortz
C. Ortigoza
SUAL, Pangasinan
– Because of amity and solidarity at the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Vietnamese government will
not file a criminal case against those men of the Philippine Navy who shot to death two
Vietnamese fishermen, Ambassador Ly Quoc Tuan said.
“No,
no! I think this is not a case. This is the issue that we came, we talked, we
solved between the two countries,” Ly retorted when asked if his government either file murder or homicide against the excessive use of force by the Filipinos.
The envoy was with President Rodrigo Duterte here Wednesday in the ceremonial sent off at the Sual Sea Warf and Causeway Area of the five fishermen caught sea poaching 34 nautical miles off Cape Bolinao in Pangasinan Province.
The envoy was with President Rodrigo Duterte here Wednesday in the ceremonial sent off at the Sual Sea Warf and Causeway Area of the five fishermen caught sea poaching 34 nautical miles off Cape Bolinao in Pangasinan Province.
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| Vietnamese Ambassador Ly Quoc Tuan Photo by Mortz C. Ortigoza |
The case
ensued last September 22 when Philippine Navy BRP Miguel Malvan vessel PS19 pursued six
Vietnamese ships that were caught at 8:30 pm inflagrante delicto
using powerful lights in drawing fish, one of them tried to obstruct and
attacked the coast guard ship.
The crew
of PS19 opened fire on the men at Vietnamese vessel PY 96173 TS when they
intended to ram the front part of the government’s vessel.
The
shooting resulted to the death of Le Van Liem and Le Van Reo and the arrest of Phan Lam, Phan Net, Nguyen Uan
Trong, Nguyen Than Chi, and Pham To.
The envoy
said the non-filling of the case was part of the cooperation between Vietnam
and the Philippines.
He cited
that Vietnam did not harm Filipino and Chinese fishermen who intruded on their
territorial sea.
“No, no. We do not use force”.
He said that
in situation like this his country immediately call the Philippine Embassy in
Vietnam to pick up Filipinos detained there so they can return home.
“No,
we don’t do the same. We have a lot of Filipino fishermen you know we asked the
Embassy of the Philippines in Vietnam to come and to pick and return them home
so we have done…”
When asked
if poaching like the one in September 22 can be committed again by his
compatriots, Ly said that his government has measures laid with their fishermen
like not to violate the territorial sea of other countries.
During the
sent off ceremony to Vietnam of the poachers, President Duterte apologized to the death of their two country men.
"I'd like to
address our Vietnamese friends. We are one. We are Asians. I'm sorry for the
incident. I hope it would never happen again. But this incident will not
destroy our bond of relationship -- very strong. We would be willing to talk
anytime," Duterte told the ambassador and the five fishermen.READ:
Carlo Soldevilla My Note to my columnist friend, Mar C. Ortigoza (Mortz Ortigoza) on his FB Post: the cold war is all about the west wanting to control the east. for my side comment, maybe the westerners can hardly accept the fact that the sun rises or shines in or from the east and sets in the west. even during the time of the birth of Christ, 3 wise men from the east (not from the west) was mentioned in the bible. henry kissinger, a Jew from U.S. was instrumental in ending the cold war. The vietnamese ambassador was his friend, and their talks had led to the withdrawal of U.S. troops from vietnam. i was reading a lot (maybe not that much) about this incident. The U.S. was defeated in this vietnam war. They lost 20,000 foot soldiers (maybe with the exception of Rambo? I hope the film's not biased to show in favor of U.S.). About two years ago, when I had the chance to go to Palawan, I happened to pass by the vietnamese village and talked with the vietnamese lady scholars there. The philippines has been good to vietnam that we welcomed their refugees . i just missed tasting the vietnamese noodles which is considered as the world's best..but here in makati resto, i happened to taste the vietnamese noodles which has herbs as garnish. edsa-shangri la has vietnamese resto, too. until now I'm pondering what einstein said that future wars will be fought by sticks and stones (a case of jungle warfare?). Despite the fact that Monsanto provided the U.S. with the Agent Orange (a chemical, harmful, which clears the vietnam forest so they can see the vietcongs from the air), the U.S. plan in winning the war was not a success. These chemicals,later on, had side effects to the vietnamese including the U.S. soldiers who were there in vietnam when this chemical was thrown (a case of chemical warfare?).
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