Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Hostages on foreign land...

US Navy destroying a skiff
According to latest government data, 43 Indian Seafarers are still held as hostages in foreign lands - especially by Somali Pirates. The oldest continuing one started as back as March, 2010, six crews of a Panama flagged vessel - M.V Iceberg I. For full details see the table below,

Sl.No.
Name of the ship
Flag
No. of Indian crew held as hostages
Date when hijacked
1.
M.V. Iceberg I
Panama
6
29.03.2010
2.
Ex-M.T. Asphalt Venture
Panama
7
29.09.2010
3.
M.V. Albedo
Malaysia
2
26.11.2010
4.
M.V. Royal Grace
Panama
17
02.03.2012
5.
M.T. Smyrni
Liberian
11
10.05.2012
Total
43


Parts of Somalia are still lawless; in fact there is hardly anything called government services, even in capital Mogadishu. This should not stop our actions and negotiations to release the hostages. Many of them already spent more than two years as hostages...

Sajeev.

Photo courtesy: US Navy

No comments:

Post a Comment