Somalia: FAMINE, CIVIL WAR, KILLING, HUNGER, DISEASE
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The Hidden Truth Of Somali Piracy - 1 of 2
The Hidden Truth Of Somali Piracy ... "Most of you have already heard about the Somali pirates. Just recently they captured an American cargo ship and held the captain hostage. They have done this to many other vessels from a variety of different countries. In fact, the American captain was lucky -- he escaped, with the help of some sharp-shooter Navy Seals -- but hundreds of international sailors and crew are still being held by Somali pirates who seek millions of dollars for their safe return, and the safe return of their ships. You know all this already, though. And you probably think it's just one more evil group of people trying to get rich quick. You probably even think we should just kill them all or find their Somali-based camp and wipe it out and be done with it. But there's another side of this story you haven't been told. And when you hear it, you might just change your opinion of what's been going on. I want to first describe Somalia. It's not a beautiful place, in fact it has been compared to hell on earth. All of Africa is poor by western standards, but Somalia is poor by African standards. Decades of drought, famine, genocide, war and corruption have left the inhabitants of this dusty ruin of a country in a constant battle for daily survival. The land is littered with trash and debris from brief periods of hope and prosperity that cycled through corruption and violence. People live in huts made of trash and a majority of the nation survives on their only resource -- the ocean. In the latter part of the 1990s, Somali people began to get sick. It was isolated at first -- skin rashes, some hair falling out, bleeding of the gums, diarrhea... and it came and went. Some people thought it could have been the fish or the water, but no one really could focus on the cause. Then, on Christmas day of 2004, it all became clear. The great earthquake in Indonesia caused a deadly tsunami that moved west, killing hundreds of thousands of people along the way, and finished by pushing the ocean waters up the Somali coast. After it receded, Somali people found dozens of huge, strange metal cylinders on their shoreline. Being impoverished but resourceful, people began to open the cylinders and scavenge through the contents. Maybe there was something of value inside... something they could use or sell for food. Some cylinders contained what appeared to be rocks or dirt, others had what looked like plastic and glass trash. Soon, the beaches were littered with the same debris, likely from cylinders that had broken apart under the water. Within a few weeks, hundreds of people were sick and 300 people had died. Why? What was going on? What does this have to do with pirates? In a schoolyard, the bullies usually pick on the weakest kids. In the global schoolyard, a country without a government to protect its people, like Somalia, is an invitation for abuse. And when the abuse is about money it's a done deal. The easiest way to abuse Somalia was to rob them of their one great resource -- food. According to Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the United Nations envoy to Somalia, "European ships have been looting Somaia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed out own fish stocks by over-exploitation ñ and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300 million worth of tuna, shrimp, lobster and other sea life is being stolen every year by vast trawlers illegally sailing into Somaliaìs unprotected seas." The most prized catch of the Somali seas if the yellowfin tuna, yet these fish have been found to have surprisingly high traces of such toxic chemicals as cadmium, mercury and radioactive uranium. Despite this, these same fish are sold all across Europe without the requirement to disclose the chemicals or their country of origin. But that's not the worst of it. Please Read Part 2 video description. Please check the websites below for more info http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates-1225817.html http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/3-toxic-waste-behind-somali-pirates/ http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2008/10/2008109174223218644.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article418665.ece http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVV_gQDsp1m8v7nPcumVc5McYV-Q http://www.infowars.com/is-toxic-waste-behind-somali-piracy/ http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/toxic-waste-dumping-illegal-fishing-helping-get-us-into-piracy-mess-in-somalia.php
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The Hidden Truth Of Somali Piracy - 2 of 2
The Hidden Truth Of Somali Piracy... It's much more interesting to think in black and white, good and bad. But too often the truth comes in only one color, the green of money. Please check the website below to read the rest of the video article! http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=THE+HIDDEN+TRUTH+OF+SOMALI+PIRACY...+&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&psj=1&fp=9bef8cda26d1a6ec Why is it so hard to understand some of the underlying causes of problem? If illegal fishing and dumping of toxic waste, the uranium and radioactive, heavy metals like cadmium and mercury, also industrial waste and hospital wastes, chemical waste that are the contributing factors to the problem of Somali piracy, then why not go after the criminals that are taking advantage of the their unfortunate situations in the past two decades instead of addressing what the pirates are doing? Where is Justice for the Somali people? What would you do if this were your family where there is no government to protect you? I don't agree with what some of the pirates are doing, but what other alternative do they have. They complained to the UN many times but nothing was done about it! I provided you the websites to view! Now it's all up to you to make your own conclusions!!! ~Fatima Please check the websites below for more info http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/... http://www.projectcensored.org/top-st... http://english.aljazeera.net/news/afr... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news... http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g... http://www.infowars.com/is-toxic-wast... http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/...
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Hunger
Unjust
Greed
America
Europe
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Wealth
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East
Horn
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Poverty
Government
Toxic
Waste
Chemicals
Cadmium
Mercury
Radioactive
Uranium
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Muqdisho: Ma hakan howlihii waxbarashada
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Somalia: Building Stability and Peace
Speaking at Chatham House HE Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke warned that without urgent action in Somalia, insurgency will continue and the terrorist threat will increase. He added that the causes of piracy as well as the symptoms need to be addressed. More details of this event and the transcript can be found here - http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/events/view/-/id/1340/.
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Western firms profit from Somalia's piracy problem - 09 Sep
Many of the pirates operating off the coast of Somalia were given special forces-style training from Western firms, a special report by Al Jazeera has found. Some security firms currently protecting shipping from the pirates had been engaged to train them a decade ago. One company, Hart Security, coached trainees to be the "coastguard" of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region - providing protection from illegal fishing in the region. In this exclusive report, Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan found that Western companies, involved at all levels of the business, can now expect to make up to half a million dollars from the average $2m "ransom and release" contracts they are awarded to solve.
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France helps fight Somali pirates - 11 Nov 08
With an estimated $13bn to $16bn lost every year to maritime pirates, the French navy has helped to escort some merchant ships through pirate-infested waters. Al Jazeera's Estelle Youssouffa, reporting from a French frigate in the Gulf of Aden, examines the increasing problem of piracy.
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Somali Piracy (Al-Jazeera English)
Piracy has become an almost daily occurence off Somalia since the withdrawal of the Islamic Courts. The highest ransom to have been is said to have been around $2.5 million, and the pirates are so well connected that they receive the money outside Somalia with little difficulty.
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Private navy to combat Somali piracy
Shipping insurers are considering setting up the world's first private navy in modern times to combat the threat posed by Somali pirates. In 2010, there have been 123 attacks and 33 seizures. Maritime insurance companies have paid out $300 million in ransoms over the past two years. Graeme Gibbon Brooks is the Managing Director of Dryad Maritime Intelligence Service, a private security company. He joins David Foster from Hastings in England.
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