The China Coast Guard (CCG) seize and dump overboard food, medicine and other supplies meant for Filipino troops stationed at a remote outpost in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal, and allegedly obstructing a medical evacuation of ailing soldiers.
Both incidents took place on May 19, when the Philippine Navy performed an airdrop operation to bring the items to the BRP Sierra Madre, a dilapidated warship grounded in 1999 to protect Manila’s claims to the shoal, according to a ranking military official, who asked not to be named for not having authority to speak to the media.
In a third incident, on May 24, the CCG used water cannons to drive away a Filipino fishing boat near the shoal, the official said. The Inquirer source said the CCG deployed four rubber boats during the May 19 paradrop operation of a Philippine Navy aircraft to the Sierra Madre.
The Chinese grabbed some of the provisions, mostly food, and scattered them into the water, making sure they couldn’t be consumed. But some of them took supplies for themselves, the source said.
On the same day, two CCG ships and four rubber boats also harassed a medical evacuation operation meant to provide medical assistance to soldiers who got sick, the source said. One of the CCG ships directly blasted its water cannon at the outboard motor toward one of the Philippine rubber boats, he added.
“This activity is a clear violation of human rights of a sick person that needs medical attention”
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