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RSS-affiliate Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM) has written to the U.S. Ambassador protesting the killing of 3 Indian seafarers successful abstracted incidents betwixt June 8 and June 11 successful U.S. attacks.
The outfit has demanded a transparent probe and compensation for the victims' families.
In a missive addressed to U.S. Ambassador Sergio Gor connected Monday (June 15, 2026), the RSS affiliate expressed "deep symptom and anguish" implicit the alleged unprovoked sidesplitting of 3 unarmed Indian seafarers by U.S. equipped forces.
"These incidents person sent a question of disbelief and choler among the radical of India. The U.S. medication added insult to wounded by an insensitive and irresponsible response, hurting Indian sentiments further, arsenic Indians person ever considered the U.S. to beryllium a large friend," SJM nationalist co-convenor Ashwani Mahajan said successful the letter.
The organisation demanded a transparent, time-bound and impartial probe into the incidents and sought accountability for those responsible, whether individuals oregon authorities actors.
It besides called for compensation and justness for the victims' families, assurances against immoderate recurrence and adherence to planetary ineligible obligations.
"India's anguish is heavy and its resoluteness is firm: Those liable indispensable beryllium held accountable, and the dignity and information of Indian seafarers indispensable beryllium upheld astatine each costs," Mr. Mahajan said.
He added that India reserves the close to rise the substance astatine planetary forums, including the United Nations and the International Maritime Organization (IMO), for justness to the victims' kin.
Mahajan alleged that the U.S. enactment constituted a superior usurpation of planetary instrumentality governing the seas, equipped conflict, and quality rights.
"At the bosom of maritime governance lies the United Nations Convention connected the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which guarantees the state and information of navigation connected planetary waters. International instrumentality provides extortion from unlawful interference for merchant vessels manned by civilian seafarers. An onslaught connected specified vessels without lawful justification represents a wide usurpation of internationally accepted norms," helium said.
Mr. Mahajan said that adjacent successful situations of equipped conflict, civilian lives are protected nether the Geneva Conventions.
"Seafarers aboard commercialized ships, being non-combatants, cannot beryllium treated arsenic morganatic targets. The principles of distinction, proportionality and necessity signifier the cardinal ground of planetary humanitarian law," helium said.
According to the SJM, the IMO's planetary maritime information model obligates each nations to guarantee the extortion of beingness astatine sea, and attacks that endanger civilian seafarers onslaught astatine the instauration of planetary maritime cooperation.
"The sidesplitting of guiltless Indian seafarers is not simply a bilateral contented — it is simply a situation to the rule-based planetary order. Allowing specified acts would erode the sanctity of planetary instrumentality and endanger maritime information globally," Mr. Mahajan said.
"People of India question an mentation from the U.S. administration, which has ever projected itself arsenic a champion of quality rights, arsenic to however it could onslaught a vas that was lasting unmoved for days together," helium added.
