When we first heard of the Somali pirates we thought that they were not much of a threat, we thought that they were dangerous, but could be controlled. And then the Somali pirates captured the captain of a U.S. cargo ship, we were suddenly threatened. And some of the U.S. Navy SEALs, swore to take them down.
So when the Somali's took captains of so many other ships from nations across the world and sometimes asked them for up to 30 million dollars to release them from captivity, the U.S. couldn't care less. But suddenly when a U.S. captain was captured (it was actually one of there worst and least terrible captivities) the U.S. is really shocked and have sworn to take them down and possibly kill some of them.
How did this even start?
Somalia is the poorest country in the world (based on a 'per capita' survey in "The 2009 Scholastic Book of World Records") on average, the average person (or, in Latin, 'per capita') in Somalia makes 600 dollars a year, and these Somali Pirates used to be fisherman and coastguards.
Ever since the Somalian civil war in 1991, Somalia has never had an official government, and since they are a coastal country and they need water borders so that they can have legal places for them to fish and no one else, however if you don't have a government, then you don't have legal fishing waters and that means that any country in the world can just go in there and fish and it will be legal. Now I am not saying anything, (That was a lie, I shouldn't lie on Truthnicity) but if I were in charge of a country, although, it were completely legal, if someone caught me (and a lot of major countries border Somalia, like Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia) then I would be in trouble, and then after they had already fished in the should-have-been Somali waters, the self-volunteering coast guards were about to report these countries when the legal-trespassers bribed them with the one thing that most Somalians need, money.
So now, whenever anyone enters there waters, the Somali pirates will take them, hold them hostage, and say that they will let them free if given the proper amount of money (usually around 5-10 million dollars).
My overall conclusion is that it is not entirely the pirates' fault.
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Sam
Of course it's their fault. They're pirates holding people hostage for money. All they care about is money. Maybe it's a little bit Somolia's fault, but it's deffinetly mostly pirates.
ReplyDeleteYou spelled "definitely" and "Somalia" wrong and they need money, and yeah, they shouldn't do it, they know that, but they also need money.
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