Maahoara 3 Captain speaks out: "Indian military had their weapons pointed at us"

"They had their guns pointed straight at us. Close enough to touch us with the tips of them. I said we are cooperating, aren't we? They made us feel like criminals in our own seas. They were intimidating us."

Captain Ibrahim Rasheed of Maahoara 3, one of the Maldivian fishing vessels which Indian Coastguard boarded and conducted an operation on on January 31 while it was within the Maldives' Exclusive Economic Zone, said these words when speaking to Mihaaru News about the day's events and his experiences.