“BARE Arms”
After visiting the injured sailor in Palawan, Brawner described the incident as” a fight with our uncovered hands” and claimed that Filipino staff had “fought again with our uncovered hands” when Chinese coast guard staff from eight arteries boarded their rigid-hulled inflatable boats.
” They took weapons and other gear, destroyed our products on board including the vehicles. They punctured our inflexible- mashed inflated vessels”, he said.
We are even demanding from the Chinese that they return our rifles and our tools, as well as that they indemnify them for the losses they have caused, according to Brawner.
” For me this is piracy”.
The Chinese beach guard, in accordance with Rear Admiral Alfonso Torres, commander of the Philippines ‘ South China Sea forces, reported to reporters that” seven firearms were looted and violently taken” by the country.
He claimed that the cellular phones of the Filipino crew’s devices were taken, along with conversation and navigation products, as well as an outboard motor, which had been destroyed.
According to Brawner, the Taiwanese coast guard carried spears and swords as well as “bolos,” a type of single-edged sword.
” Our army had none of those”, he said.
The seized weapons were, according to the Spanish military, intended for Asian soldiers operating the BRP Sierra Madre ship on the reef. The staff of the boarded boats were instructed not to show their weapons, according to the statement.
China has constructed numerous reefs into unnatural militarised islands and has deployed a coast guard and other vessels to guard the waters around Second Thomas Shoal.
In recent months, it has increased its actions against Spanish ships in the area.
Torres said Monday’s fight began when one of the Filipino ships was “illegally rammed” at “high velocity” by a Chinese beach watch boat.
When the Taiwanese vehicle landed on top of the arrow, the wounded Filipino Naval Special Operations Group member, according to Torres, lost a finger.