YEMEN TO PROTEST ATTACKS BY ANTI-PIRATE MISSIONS

SANA'A, April 09 (Saba) – Yemen is to protest attacks by warships, including an Indian one and another believed to be a Russian, in the region on Yemeni fishing boats, state-run 26sep.net reported on Thursday citing sources familiar with the matter.

The sources said that the Foreign Ministry will not tolerate and use all means to prevent further irresponsible acts of warships patrolling the region on anti-piracy missions against Yemeni people.

Fishermen in the eastern province of Hadramout have told authorities how a warship destroyed Yemeni boats in front of their owners.

A number of Yemeni fishermen were fishing on four boats when an airplane approached them ordering them to head to a warship in the region. When we arrived at the warship we saw another Yemeni boat held there, they said. We were assembled and inspected carefully for six hours, they said.

Later, we were put aboard one of our boats and the warship destroyed the other boats in front of us, they added.

Many attacks have occurred against Yemeni boats in which crews were killed and the boats were destroyed since international anti-piracy missions were dispatched into the region.

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