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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by WayeeCool@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1737771585153499494

Lmao, not a piracy problem. Just the Yemenis carrying out legitimate naval interdiction operations and interference from Israel's allies. Mfkers pretending this is a piracy problem like off the coast of Somalia when it's just ships affiliated with Israel being interdicted.

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[-] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 134 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

there is no such thing as Somali piracy, ignore the psyop

https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/africa-archives/root-causes-of-somali-piracy-nuclear-dumping-and-seafood-looting/

Ever since a civil war brought down Somalia's last functional government in 1991, the country's 3,330 km (2,000 miles) of coastline โ€” the longest in continental Africa โ€” has been pillaged by foreign vessels. A United Nations report in 2006 said that, in the absence of the country's at one time serviceable coastguard, Somali waters have become the site of an international "free for all," with fishing fleets from around the world illegally plundering Somali stocks and freezing out the country's own rudimentarily-equipped fishermen. According to another U.N. report, an estimated $300 million worth of seafood is stolen from the country's coastline each year. "In any context," says Gustavo Carvalho, a London-based researcher with Global Witness, an environmental NGO, "that is a staggering sum."

In the face of this, impoverished Somalis living by the sea have been forced over the years to defend their own fishing expeditions out of ports such as Eyl, Kismayo and Harardhere โ€” all now considered to be pirate dens.

https://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1892376,00.html

[-] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 62 points 11 months ago

Oh damn, I feel like this doesn't get explained enough

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 44 points 11 months ago

Hoping they keep seizing more ships. $300 million worth of food being stolen is insane.

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