India calls SL Ambassador
<P>[January 13 2011]

<P>Sri Lanka on Thursday promised a serious investigation into the
killing of an Indian fisherman, allegedly by its navy.

<P>Sri Lankan High Commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam came out with the
promise after a meeting with Joint Secretary (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
and Myanmar) in the Ministry of External Affairs T.S. Tirumurti here.

<P>Earlier in the day, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, in a
letter, urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the killing of
the fisherman with the Sri Lankan government. The fisherman was killed
when the Sri Lankan Navy allegedly opened fire on his boat off the
Pudukottai coast. In Colombo, Indian High Commissioner Ashok K Kantha
called on Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris to express India's concern over
the killing.



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