SOMALIAN PIRACY

SOMALIAN PIRACY IS AN IMMORAL THING

SOMALIAN PIRACY
Somalian piracy: Acts of chasing, robing or attacking ships from or in the horn of Africa Somalian pirates have been able to travel very far to areas such as Straits of Malacca and India. Some people believe Somalian pirates are immoral people.

Other people believe Somalian pirates are modern environmental activists defending the Somalian environment and the Somalian economy for that matter.

CORE KNOWLEDGE QUESTION

How does language affect what we know and how we feel about Somalian Piracy?

WORLD BANK

Dictionary definition of Piracy: The practice of attacking and robbing ships at the sea.
In reference to the dictionary definition attacking and robbing may be an act of crime.

This report is anti Somalian piracy. As a result, we have to question if the agenda of the World Bank is to end Somalian piracy or is it to end the cause of Somalian piracy.

eradicate piracy off the Horn of Africa, global security benefits, it also makes ample economic sense: He hasnt elaborated economic sense. Economic sense for who: Somalians, Ship Crew or companies.

This report may have a bias because it includes parties that are anti-Somalian piracy and heavily rely on the region for transportation

DISCOVERY MAGAZINE

Bad guys = Somalian pirates

Good people = Armed military guards fighting against Somalian Piracy.

Because Somalian pirates have previously made it to the Straits of Malacca. In mainstream media, Malaysian and Indonesian pirates are also part of the general Somalian pirates category.

Weapons seized from Somalian pirates. In magazine, could be weapons seized from Indonesian Pirates and Somalian War

This extract claims that some pirate are armed with machetes.
If you are reading this article than you are going to feel less hostile towards pirates than if you read the World Bank report.

SOMALIAN PIRACY FROM KNAAN

I know pirates violence the islands shout out to my idrens.

Nothing to Lose(feat. Nas)-KNaan

Most of you may recognize him as the Waving Flag guy. He is pro-Somalian piracy. He grew in Mogadishu before coming to the America.

So what you know bout the pirates terrorize the ocean. To never know a simple day without a big commotion.
Somalia by KNaan

This quote claims that people are ignorant about the causes of Somalian piracy.

The west is completely ignoring the basis for piracy in Somalia. The pirates are in the water because there is a nationwide complaint about the illegal mass fishing going on in Somali waters. And nuclear toxic waste is illegally being dumped on our shores. People in Somalia know about this

INTERVIEW WITH GUARDIAN

Massive western companies would come to Somalia and dump nuclear waste containers on the shorelines so these pirates initially went into the ocean to make them pay for that sort of thing so they just took everything for ransom. That actually helped us clear our environment

Wardheernews

Wardheernews has reports and articles that prove KNaans claims.

Massive western companies would come to Somalia and dump nuclear waste containers on the shorelines

BASHIR MOHAMED HUSEIN

Founding Director of SomaCent Development Research.

Country has been subjected to extensive illegal dumping operations of toxic and radioactive waste since the 1980s

Italian weekly magazine Famiglia Cristiana had reported that, in 1997, UNEP undertook an extensive fact-finding field mission along the Somali coasts7. The journalists reported that they had obtained a copy of the assessment report according to which UNEPs mission confirmed the toxic waste dumping along the Somali coast.

after the Tsunami disaster which hit also the Somali coast in December 2004 along with a dozen of other countries, the sea stirred up rotting containers and leaking drums full of toxic substances that were previously dumped off the coast. The team had found 15 sealed containers washed ashore by the Tsunami

UNEP Somalias coastline has been used as a dumping ground for other countries nuclear and hazardous wastes for many years as a result of the long civil war and, thus, the inability of the authorities to police shipments or handle the wastes

Moreover, in an official hearing in 2006, an Italian Minister told the aforementioned special parliamentary commission that numerous elements indicate the

involvement in the previously mentioned [toxic waste and army] traffic of European and nonEuropean countries as well as the Mafia and other individuals including a well known broker who is also involved in a series of issues related to Somalia

The then Executive Director of UNEP, Dr. Mostafa Tolba, confirmed5 that European companies had been taking advantage of the on-going political chaos and civil war in Somalia in order to dump illegally hazardous toxic wastes onto the countrys long coasts.
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The then Executive Director of UNEP, Dr. Mostafa Tolba, confirmed5 that European companies had been taking advantage of the on-going political chaos and civil war in Somalia in order to dump illegally hazardous toxic wastes onto the countrys long coasts.
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The waste has been deadly for many Somalis.

since the mid 1990s, based on medical, media and other international reports, extremely worrying health problems, including unknown diseases, have affected both people and animals in Somalia.

Extremely worrying health problems because some of the diseases were incurable.
acute respiratory infections, heavy dry coughing, mouth bleeding abdominal hemorrhage and unusual chemical skin reaction

Man suffering from unknown skin disease.

unusually high number of patients suffering from thyroid, tongue and colon cancer as well as malformed newborn babies in the coastal city of Merka

unusually high number of patients suffering from thyroid, tongue and colon cancer as well as malformed newborn babies in the coastal city of Merka

SOS hospital in Mogadishu reported an excessive number of malformed babies

In addition, the article states that the chemicals cause deformities in certain animals. Somalia relies heavily on fishing and on its domestic breeding of animals. The Chemicals have caused damage to the animals. Hence, Somalian fisherman have armed themselves in order to fight the contamination.

As a result, if the evidence is correct than we may actually be ignorant as we have a perception of Somalian pirates as savage extremists. If the evidence provided above is true than Somalian pirates do have a rational reason for attacking ships and hence the general mainstream view of Somalian pirates may be wrong. People could turn into pirates for other reasons such as poverty from the long Somalia civil war.