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14.04.09, 06:41
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"In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its 9
million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and many of the
ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to
steal the country’s food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas.
Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European
ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into
the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered
strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami,
hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to
suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died.
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the U.N. envoy to Somalia, tells me: “Somebody is
dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead and heavy metals such as
cadmium and mercury - you name it.” Much of it can be traced back to European
hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to
“dispose” of cheaply. When I asked Ould-Abdallah what European governments
were doing about it, he said with a sigh: “Nothing. There has been no cleanup,
no compensation and no prevention.”
At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia’s seas of
their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish stocks by
over-exploitation - 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 Somalia’s unprotected seas.
The local fishermen have suddenly lost their livelihoods, and they are
starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of
Mogadishu, told Reuters: “If nothing is done, there soon won’t be much fish
left in our coastal waters.”
This is the context in which the men we are calling “pirates” have emerged.
Everyone agrees they were ordinary Somalian fishermen who at first took
speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least wage a
“tax” on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coast Guard of Somalia - and
it’s not hard to see why.
In a surreal telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali, said
their motive was “to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters … We don’t
consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who
illegally fish and dump in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry
weapons in our seas.” William Scott would understand those words."
www.sfbayview.com/2009/you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates/