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

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With Somalia's interim government in exile divided, and the fragmented Islamic opposition battling each other, what is the future of Somalia as the world watches civilians starve and super tankers hijacked? Could the threat of piracy be the impetus for finding a solution to the complicated Somali affair?

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

  • What a wonderful counter-point

  • Kill YOself first!

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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

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

  • Mr Awad is Mad old man.

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