Inside Story - Piracy on the high seas - Nov 18 - Part 1

[nasirka99]

What they call pirates, we call our coast guard. For many years other countries have been illegally fishing on our waters. They have also been dumping their garbage in our waters. If the West doesn't like it.

[bounobruttocattivo]

Somalis are very moderate Muslims like all Africans, they dance, watch& play soccer, they are capitalists, entrepreneurs and above all they had the first democracy in Africa from 1960-69. Its curse - being located in strategic place and its unexploited resources. Somalis is richer than Angola in natural resources and with all that long coast ...that is why it's always victim to foreign actors and their whims and greed

[LijamGerrie]

While piracy is abhorrent, as long as people are disfranchised in their own homeland, their families & livelihood destroyed, deprived of life & liberty, made to be expendable for foreign policy of foreign powers, obviously, the masses would rise up just like the French, American & Russian revolutions, refusing to succumb to "laws" that does not represent their interest & well being. It's incomprehensible, the victims are always, innocent people who have nothing to do with the chaos & conflict.

[rjbonacolta]

The solution is simple, shoot and kill every pirate, and the dead man next to him.

[cadaaawe]

Kill YOself first!

[rjbonacolta]

What a wonderful counter-point

[fdama]

Yeah to create more pirates. Bravo. Your comment shows you are not intelligent. Go read a few books.

[bloodmoney]

Mr Awad is Mad old man.

[XasanBurhaan]

Secondly, the appearance of piracy in Somalia was motivated to defend the nation's fishing resources and fishermen livelihood that were and still are being predated by European and Asian fishing fleets with the tacit support of their governments.

[XasanBurhaan]

If arrogance and might are once again chosen to keep this country in its present state, to impose on it fantasies and stooges, Somalis have amply demonstrated that they know how to fight and that that they also have the genius and wits to find ways when the going gets tough... For example, if our pirates were to be unable to seize ships, maybe they'll sink all Saudi Supertankers...If you thought that this crisis is the peak, then think again! Things can always get worse...

[XasanBurhaan]

As we resolved many of our problems during 2006, and since the US and UK (and others) through their proxies invaded and destroyed our country, our problems are now theirs too with whole World to share.

[zutroy1]

One other question I would like to ask of a Somalian is this: Do the Somalian people want a secular democratic government or do they want an islamic theocracy or dictatorship? Are the people of Somalia as spiritual as the militias, or are the militias just using Islam as their vehicle for propaganda? Are there other religious groups in Somalia or is it almost exclusively Islamic?

[XasanBurhaan]

While we are responsible for a great part of our misery and strife, one should not be blind to the fact that foreign powers, led by the USA, have played a decisive role in preventing my country to once again stand back on its own two feets. In the process that Mr. Bush and Mr Blair started on the Christmas eve of 2006, until today, thousands of Somali died, equally are maimed for life, while millions are displaced internally and abroad.

[zutroy1]

I would love to know more if you are from Somalia, because I have asked my profs at school about Somalia and was told that the US and UK and Ethiopia were intervening in Somalian government under the name of "stabilization" but that Somalians and other Islamic nations became angry and violent, demanding western powers get out and stay out. It seems like many westerners believe that Somalia is unable to rebuild itself and unwilling to take help, but I never hear the side of the Somalian people

[wavaso]

Somalia was ignored for 2 decades by UN so this will give them attention.