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Viewing cable 07CHENNAI280, SRI LANKA CONFLICT: SPILLOVER INTO INDIA CONTINUES

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07CHENNAI280 2007-04-13 11:34 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Chennai
VZCZCXRO3990
RR RUEHBI RUEHCI
DE RUEHCG #0280/01 1031134
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 131134Z APR 07
FM AMCONSUL CHENNAI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0835
INFO RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI 2434
RUEHCI/AMCONSUL KOLKATA 0749
RUEHBI/AMCONSUL MUMBAI 5015
RUEHLM/AMEMBASSY COLOMBO 1318
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 CHENNAI 000280 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL PTER EFIS MOPS IN CE
SUBJECT: SRI LANKA CONFLICT: SPILLOVER INTO INDIA CONTINUES 
 
REFS: (A) CHENNAI 00198; (B) CHENNAI 0143; (C) CHENNAI 0086 
 
1. (SBU) SUMMARY: The effects of the intensifying conflict between 
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and Sri Lankan forces 
continue to spillover into India's southern state of Tamil Nadu. 
The death of five Indian Tamil fishermen on March 29, gunned down by 
unknown assailants, has raised anti-Sri Lankan sentiment yet again 
in Tamil Nadu.  Indian defense forces have stepped up patrolling and 
monitoring activity in the wake of appeals by Tamil Nadu's DMK-led 
government.  Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu police continue to seize large 
quantities of supplies likely meant to be smuggled across to Sri 
Lanka.  END SUMMARY 
 
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WORST ATTACK TO DATE ON INDIAN FISHERMEN 
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2. (SBU) On March 29, five Tamil Nadu fishermen were shot dead by 
unknown assailants in the Gulf of Mannar.  Initial media reports 
alleged that the attack took place in Indian waters and that the 
assailants were Sri Lankan Navy personnel who were not in uniform. 
Chief Minister Karunanidhi, however, referred to them as an 
"unidentified group" in his March 31 letter to Prime Minister Singh 
urging the Prime Minister to find out the "identity of the attackers 
and their international connections."  The Chief Minister demanded 
enhanced Indian air and sea patrols in the area.  This incident, the 
bloodiest in a series of recent attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen (Ref 
A), raised protests in Tamil Nadu with fishermen holding rallies and 
strikes in the coastal districts. 
 
3. (SBU) Confusion prevails in Tamil Nadu over the identity of the 
killers.  Chief of the Indian Naval Staff Admiral Suresh Mehta 
commented to the media that the attack could be a tactic by the 
Tamil Tigers to create a rift between India and Sri Lanka.  A source 
with close connections to the Coast Guard agreed that that the 
Tigers could have been behind the attack.  But sources with the 
Tamil Nadu police believe the assailants may have been from the Sri 
Lankan Navy, which uses hired fishing boats to monitor activity on 
Sri Lanka's northwest coast.  Media reports that the surviving 
fishermen told investigating officers that the assailants had looked 
like Indians only add to the confusion. 
 
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MORE SHIPS ARRIVE, RADAR SET UP 
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4. (SBU) The Indian Navy and Coast Guard, meanwhile, have responded 
to calls for a stepped up presence in the region.  With the recent 
arrival of two naval vessels, media reports indicate that the Navy 
and Coast Guard are currently operating at least four ships and 
several patrol boats and hovercraft in the Palk Strait and Gulf of 
Mannar.  The Indian Navy has also reportedly begun discussions with 
the government of Tamil Nadu to set up a permanent naval station in 
Rameswaram (the point in India closest to Sri Lanka).  South Indian 
media widely reported on March 29 that the Indian Air Force has set 
up a radar system near the coastal village of Sundaramudayan in the 
wake of the the Tamil Tigers' first-ever air attack in Colombo on 
March 26. 
 
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ARMS SMUGGLING ATTEMPT BUSTED AGAIN 
----------------------------------- 
 
5. (SBU) Tamil Nadu police, meanwhile continue efforts to disrupt 
the alleged Tamil Tiger smuggling network in Tamil Nadu.  On March 
28, the police seized 1,950 detonators from the Irumeni coastal 
village.  Deputy Inspector General of Police S.S. Krishnamurthi 
informed post that the detonators were obviously meant to be 
smuggled to Sri Lanka.  He said they had been procured in India and 
were of the kind commonly used in rock quarries.  The detonators 
were hidden in a sand mound in a coconut grove, close to the largest 
Sri Lankan refugee camp in India.  No arrests have been made in the 
case so far although several people are being questioned by the 
Tamil Nadu police's anti-terrorism unit. 
 
6. (SBU) COMMENT: With the virtual collapse of the ceasefire in Sri 
Lanka, post's interlocutors feel that the Tamil Tigers perceive the 
need to reactivate their smuggling network.  Our contacts believe 
that increased intelligence and law enforcement activity directed at 
the Tamil Tigers by the U.S. and EU countries is forcing the Tigers 
to look to their contacts in South India for supplies.  Tamil Nadu's 
fishermen, taking to the waters between India and Sri Lanka in 
thousands of small boats each day, present an almost insurmountable 
smuggling problem for both governments.  Even while showing alacrity 
in pursing recent cases of arms smuggling and in stepping up 
patrolling by the Navy and Coast Guard, Indian officials recognize 
that the problem will continue to exist so long as the conflict 
continues on the island.  Our contacts in South India do not want 
 
CHENNAI 00000280  002 OF 002 
 
 
India to pursue the Sri Lankan proposal to hold joint patrolling: 
being caught in a direct military conflict with either the Tamil 
Tigers or the Sri Lankan Navy is the last thing they would want 
given the political complexities of the region.  END COMMENT 
 
HOPPER