However, it is not unlikely that Japan and Korea are illegally fishing there and have bully-boy tactics. They especially want to believe that Japan and Korea and are stealing all their fish and therefore deserve 'punishing' in the way that only pirates can.

It also appeases the people of the country who quite likely suffer from mass cognitive dissonance (and possibly khat addiction, which is widespread) who want to believe that the outside world hates them and says they are international criminals as pirates, when all they are trying to do is to protect their coastline from marauding fishing vessels. Except the shipping companies who couldn't care less what name you call the people with AK-47s boarding them and demanding ransoms. So therefore if the country's biggest (and most boastful) pirate who headed 20 pirate organisations now says he is 'reformed' and a coastguard protecting the country from illegal fishing vessels, everyone is happy. If you accept that piracy is an unacceptable term to the government, because it is illegal, then if they are called coastguards, they are no longer scum, criminals, but praiseworthy individuals doing their duty. Notes on reading the book I think I understand it now. So there is no real will to stop it because the only people harmed are foreigners from which they derive no benefit either. Piracy is more or less irrelevant to the average Somalian who isn't a criminal and doesn't benefit or lose out in any way from it. Since they haven't got any money, the best, perhaps only way, of getting them to want to is to give them vast sums of financial aid that will by corruption filter down to the first law-enforcement level above the pirates and be a better and more regular source of income than the pirates' bribes.Ħ. Piracy will only disappear from Somalia when the authorities want it to.

It is equally true that those who think they can make bigger and faster bucks will become criminals in any economy, no matter that they aren't poor and their country is rich.ĥ. It is undoubtedly true that if Somalia wasn't so poor, that people wouldn't need to become pirates or to be one of their many support services. Should they fail to pay off the right authorities or those who want to find out just who is doing what, they are going to get shopped and stopped and then another set of pirates will take over that patch, so plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.Ĥ. The pirates aren't doing it out of altruism, they are doing it to make money for themselves alone.ģ.

It is said that the pirates are the lesser of two evils as they guard the coast from illegal factory ships from Korea and China.Ģ.

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