Her Captain’s Voice

as every media talks about it now.

Almost 75% of the world media talked about the Heroic adventures of Indian Navy in the pirate-infested waters off somalia coast, which has successfully completed three missions in less than two weeks.

The first one was saving a Saudi and Indian Merchant ships from pirate attacks and the next and most criticised one was sinking a (so-called) “pirate mother ship” after an assault-threat came from the latter.

Indian Navy has claimed that it has fired the ship with armed pirates on-board and seized an abandoned fast-attack boat while the other was flew away in the dark. Two days after the action, the Indian Navy has released some photos of ground-zero; the burning pirate-ship.

“The Indian Navy’s stand is very clear. We were first fired upon and then we fired back in self-defence. The vessel was laden with a large quantity of ammunition as shown by the pictures (of the incident),” Sinha told.”Gun-totting pirates threatened to blow us up in international waters. So, this is an involvement in an act of piracy and we acted in self-defence,” he added.

But yesterday, six days after the incident a thai shipping company claimed that the Indian Navy mistakenly shot one of its deep-water fishing trawl and added they lost 14 sailors. They claimed that one of the crew member was found dead and one was rescued where as others are still not found.

But still Indian Navy is maintaining that it had sinked an armed vessel which thwarted an assault over the frigate. The crew of the frigate said that they have seen armed pirates roaming over the deck of the ship.

This situation clearly embarrased the Indian Navy men who was praised earlier this week and criticised later for the same issue.

Few questions that can be raised:

• Why do the fishing trawl is armed with gun-men and rocket launchers?
• Why do a fishing trawl needs two fast attack boats in tow?
• Why didn’t the fishing trawl stopped for investigation when asked?

To answer all these questions, the thai ship owner later said that the fishing trawl was attacked by the pirates and hijacked by them. And the trawl was under the control of pirates when questioned by the Indian ship.

But still we have some questions:

• How come a huge fireball seen after an explosion in a fishing trawl which has nothing but fishing equipments on-board? (Indian Navy claims this is due to the stored explosives in the ship)
• What in the world the need for these pirates capable of hijacking the world’s largest container ship would ever capture a small fishing trawl which has nothing but fishing equipments?