Last night, just after a few days when the American hero captain "Capt Phillips" was rescued, another US merchant ship was attacked. Fortunately this time the pirates failed to board the vessel and fled when a anvy destroyer came out. But so far there are four more ships seized upon, including a Lebanese-owned cargo ship, a Greek-owned bulk carrier, and two Egyptian fishing boats. "Capt Phillips told his crew to lock themselves in a cabin and surrendered himself to safeguard his men", crew members said. Before the rescue action for the captain in which three pirates was killed, the aim of the pirates was only for huge ransom, for which last year the firms handed over about £54m. So they treated the hostages very kindly. But now they have vowed to avenge the deaths, one self-proclaimed pirate said the US navy had become the "number one enemy" and "From now on, if we capture foreign ships and their respective countries try to attack us, we will kill them". At the same time Obama also made a vow to crack down on piracy. The usual area the pirates make a move was Gulf of Aden, but now they have extented to Indian Ocean. "More than 130 pirates attacks, including close to 50 successful hijackings, were reported in 2008, threatening one of the world's busiest shipping lanes." and "Somalia is largely under the control of a group with links to al-Qaeda, our correspondent says, and they may choose to make a political point out of the situation." sited from BBC News. While a UN representative told to BBC that the pirates should be supported by international network controlled by mafia. Up to now there has been not a feasible way to solve this problem. There is only a weakly legal goverment in Somalia supported by the UN who should be concerning more about the poverty and serious clashes in the country. And I think the US may not pull out of Somalia as they did in Iraq, because Somalia has nothing interested but serious living environment. The pirates even hijacked the ship of international assistance to Somalia. If every ship going through that area has a guard, such as a destroyer, it will be huge cost to the companies. So what can we do to deter the pirates?
Why are there so many pirates in somalia? I think most people have the same answer, it's due to poverty. but what's the reason that they became poor? Maybe all of us have known little.
"Somalia's seas offer a particularly fertile patch for tuna, sardines and mackerel, and other lucrative species of seafood, including lobsters and sharks." (I have to take back what I had said in the upper comment. Somali could have been a rich country.) So the somalis were earning their livings by fishing despite they were equipped poor tools and techniques. However nearly twenty years ago, a civil war broke out in somalia when the goverment was pulled down. the small country with 3330kms long coastline were busy in fighting but protecting their seafood as the main economy income of themselves. Maybe all of us have stayed on the land too long that we haven't known what's going on in the sea. We couldn't know the invasions there as soon as that happened in Kuwait and Iraq. Several countries' fishing fleets barged in the somali marine belt and "stole our lobsters", such as South Korean, Japanese, Spainish and so on. Well these invader were autherized by themselves. "They often fly flags of convenience from sea-faring friendly nations like Belize and Bahrain, which further helps the ships skirt international regulations and evade censure from their home countries." and they had much more advanced trawling tools and they were also equipped "water cannons and firearms" to attack the host. After the somalis were aware of the invasions, they chose to beat back. They adopted the terror way to bring back their "food" by requiring ransom. Actually we rarely knew the pirates news if the bandits were abductted, because they were afraid of being well-known and returned the money immediately. So the somali fishermen had found an easy and high-profit way to trawling "fish" ,so that they would never turn back to be a real fisherman. Well there is also another event needed to be exposed, that the US ever supportted Ethiopian invasion in Somali. Now the retribution to the invaders is coming...
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How to deter Somali pirates?
Last night, just after a few days when the American hero captain "Capt Phillips" was rescued, another US merchant ship was attacked. Fortunately this time the pirates failed to board the vessel and fled when a anvy destroyer came out. But so far there are four more ships seized upon, including a Lebanese-owned cargo ship, a Greek-owned bulk carrier, and two Egyptian fishing boats.
"Capt Phillips told his crew to lock themselves in a cabin and surrendered himself to safeguard his men", crew members said.
Before the rescue action for the captain in which three pirates was killed, the aim of the pirates was only for huge ransom, for which last year the firms handed over about £54m. So they treated the hostages very kindly. But now they have vowed to avenge the deaths, one self-proclaimed pirate said the US navy had become the "number one enemy" and "From now on, if we capture foreign ships and their respective countries try to attack us, we will kill them". At the same time Obama also made a vow to crack down on piracy.
The usual area the pirates make a move was Gulf of Aden, but now they have extented to Indian Ocean.
"More than 130 pirates attacks, including close to 50 successful hijackings, were reported in 2008, threatening one of the world's busiest shipping lanes." and "Somalia is largely under the control of a group with links to al-Qaeda, our correspondent says, and they may choose to make a political point out of the situation." sited from BBC News.
While a UN representative told to BBC that the pirates should be supported by international network controlled by mafia.
Up to now there has been not a feasible way to solve this problem. There is only a weakly legal goverment in Somalia supported by the UN who should be concerning more about the poverty and serious clashes in the country. And I think the US may not pull out of Somalia as they did in Iraq, because Somalia has nothing interested but serious living environment. The pirates even hijacked the ship of international assistance to Somalia. If every ship going through that area has a guard, such as a destroyer, it will be huge cost to the companies.
So what can we do to deter the pirates?
Fishermen protect their food!
Why are there so many pirates in somalia? I think most people have the same answer, it's due to poverty. but what's the reason that they became poor? Maybe all of us have known little.
"Somalia's seas offer a particularly fertile patch for tuna, sardines and mackerel, and other lucrative species of seafood, including lobsters and sharks." (I have to take back what I had said in the upper comment. Somali could have been a rich country.) So the somalis were earning their livings by fishing despite they were equipped poor tools and techniques.
However nearly twenty years ago, a civil war broke out in somalia when the goverment was pulled down. the small country with 3330kms long coastline were busy in fighting but protecting their seafood as the main economy income of themselves. Maybe all of us have stayed on the land too long that we haven't known what's going on in the sea. We couldn't know the invasions there as soon as that happened in Kuwait and Iraq.
Several countries' fishing fleets barged in the somali marine belt and "stole our lobsters", such as South Korean, Japanese, Spainish and so on. Well these invader were autherized by themselves. "They often fly flags of convenience from sea-faring friendly nations like Belize and Bahrain, which further helps the ships skirt international regulations and evade censure from their home countries." and they had much more advanced trawling tools and they were also equipped "water cannons and firearms" to attack the host.
After the somalis were aware of the invasions, they chose to beat back. They adopted the terror way to bring back their "food" by requiring ransom. Actually we rarely knew the pirates news if the bandits were abductted, because they were afraid of being well-known and returned the money immediately. So the somali fishermen had found an easy and high-profit way to trawling "fish" ,so that they would never turn back to be a real fisherman.
Well there is also another event needed to be exposed, that the US ever supportted Ethiopian invasion in Somali.
Now the retribution to the invaders is coming...
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