The secretary of the non-governmental organization, Fishermen and Friends of the Sea, Gary Aboud, Thursday confirmed that two Trinidad and Tobago nationals were among the six people killed following a United States military airstrike on a small vessel off the coast of Venezuela earlier this week.
‘We would like to offer our condolences to the families, friends, children, wives of the deceased. Very, very sorry that they were murdered like this. I am very very sorry,’ Aboud said on a radio broadcast on Thursday with regards to the killings of Richie Samaroo and Chad ‘Charpo’ Joseph.
Aboud said as a result of the killings, local fisherfolk are now afraid of going out to sea.
‘People are terrified at the risk of being killed at sea. Personally I am very upset with our national position of bringing American warships and allowing them to by pass the judicial process.
‘We have law and order. We are a civilised nation. Yet we have adopted and given blessing to warmongering murderers to come into our territory and kill people outside of the judicial process.