No video, no truth, it is difficult for the Taiwan Strait Patrol Department to justify itself

Mondo Social Updated on 2024-02-22

The mainland fishing boat capsized and killed two people, and the Taiwan Strait Patrol Department provided search and rescue footage after the incident, but found that the process of the chasing boat capsizing was not videotaped, so that each side said its own thing. (Provided by the Taiwan Strait Patrol Department).

According to Taiwan's "China Times News Network", the mainland fishing boat and the Taiwan Coast Guard Department overturned during the chase and caused two fatal accidents, and the Coast Guard confirmed that the hull of the ship "made many contacts" during the process, but the two surviving fishermen said that they were "knocked over" by the Coast Guard and fell into the water, and the difference was very large. It could have been used as a video footage to clarify the truth, but due to factors such as the pursuit at sea and the short time, the Coast Guard said that it could not be recorded in the whole process, so it was reduced to each saying its own thing, however, the Kinmen Coast Guard was not on duty in this sea area overnight, and this statement is really difficult to justify.

After this incident occurred, the coast guard department stressed at the beginning that the mainland fishing boat "snakeed and refused to inspect and accidentally capsized," but did not mention whether the two vessels collided, let alone surveillance footage to corroborate it; Zhu Fenglian, spokeswoman for the mainland's Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, bitterly criticized the incident as a vicious incident, and the Taiwan side vigorously refuted it, but the situation has not changed because of this.

In particular, Chiu Tai-san, chairman of Taiwan's leading committee, said at first that he had maintained a certain degree of contact with the mainland, and that he would also inform the mainland of the results after the investigation was over. However, with regard to the incident, the IOC and the Coast Guard have always avoided the important and trivialized the suspicions of all parties and their requests for the release of the chase footage, and even after the mainland personnel arrived in Kinmen, they were unwilling to release their suspicions, and only low-key said that they put their families first.

What's more, human life is of the essence. However, it was not until the family members cried out for the truth and refused to cremate the remains that the "local prosecutor's office" said the "secret" that could not be said in the past few days, that is, there was no video recording of the whole process, which made the original weak foundation of mutual trust between the two sides of the strait collapse in an instant, and also made it possible in the future to find the results of the investigation that believers will always believe and those who do not believe will never believe.

According to the island's current "Maritime Law Enforcement Operation Specifications of Coastal Patrol Organs," the purpose of requiring video evidence to be stored is just in case, so when a coast guard ship discovers a target, it should start recording or videotaping, taking photos and collecting evidence, and clearly explain the situation to the outside world at the first time. The so-called contact between the ships does not indicate that there is a collision between them at sea, and the coast guard department is engaged in a big word game, so that this "coast guard cloth" not only shows that the crisis has not been properly handled, but also adds fuel to the fire. [*Huaxia Graticule].

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