	colombo to defend waters india readies flotilla sri lanka today ordered its armed forces to defend the island s territorial waters as india prepared to send a flotilla with relief supplies that colombo says it does not want for the tamils in the jaffna peninsula the sudden crisis between sri lanka and its giant neighbour deepened as prime minister ranasinghe premadasa told parliament we have our territorial limits and nobody can be allowed to trespass there president junius jayewardene has ordered the army navy and air force to protect the island and its territorial waters premadasa said to a round of applause from the house in new delhi an indian spokesman said the plan to send a flotilla of small unarmed boats with red cross supplies to jaffna tomorrow would go ahead despite colombo s objections the confrontation was the latest result of the long and bitter conflict between sri lanka s buddhist sinhalese majority and the hindu tamil minority which has strong ethnic and cultural links with india s mln tamils reuter 
