The head of the union representing India’s seafarers told me mariners on board ships around the Gulf feel like they’re in jail www.instagram.com/reel/DZn7ETL...
Three Indian sailors were killed in U.S. strikes on a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Oman Tuesday, according to India’s shipping minister.U.S. Central Command accused the ship of violating the ongoing naval blockade of Iran’s ports and associated vessels, saying in a statement that the engine room of the Palau-flagged M/T Settebello oil tanker was fired on after the crew “repeatedly failed to comply with directions from American forces.”Manoj Yadav, the general secretary of the Forward Seamen’s Union of India, says the deadly incident has frightened thousands of other Indian seafarers, and argues that the U.S. could have fired a missile at a different part of the vessel to warn sailors.
