[73453] in North American Network Operators' Group
Ship seized for cutting Sri Lanka's internet link
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Aug 23 22:26:01 2004
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:25:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sri Lanka's high court has ordered the seizure of an Indian cargo vessel
which allegedly cut a submarine cable connecting the island's
telecommunications subscribers with the rest of the world.
The court ordered that the vessel, State of Nagaland, be held at the
Colombo port where it berthed on Sunday after accidentally severing the
cable known as the SEA-ME-WE-III with its anchor.
